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IMS DB metrics support for anomaly detection

Add IMS DB metrics in Concert for Z, for anomaly detection using Machine Learning techniques
24 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Concert for Z KPI for IMS

Would you add the following KPIs for IMS?Our customer is thinking to use IBM Concert for Z to detect the anomaly about the folloiwngs Response time for each IMS transaction Usage of buffer pool for each ones; DB buffer, PSB/DMB pool, DFSPOOL, ...
27 days ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Add a link between the artifact and the step result in the evidence file

The step_result field in the evidence file for the MEMBER_COPY, SEQUENTIAL_COPY, MEMBER_ARCHIVE and SEQUENTIAL_ARCHIVE steps currently don’t include a field that represent the element being deployed. It only appears as part of the copy command. We...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

IBM Concert for Z Japanese panel support

Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description, expert advice and help. Especially expert advice function is approved by many customers when they see the demo and they are also disappointed it is just in English only...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the batch program to send SMP/E information to IBM Concert for Z

Our customer wants to collect SMP/E information using the batch job to use IBM Concert for Z in the separate system from the target z/OS.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Under review

Please add the APAR list on APAR Management of IBM Concert for Z

Our customers want to have the panel for the followings. (1) HOLD Action description for the specific APAR (2) APAR lists which is required to apply by each LPAR To follow their current operation for APAR Management, they need these functions in a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Concert for Z 0 Planned for future release

Need support for migrated dataset during DEPLOY_MODULES/UPDATE/MEMBER_COPY phase

When Wazi Deploy tries to copy to a dataset that has been migrated, it fails with an error in ZOAU dtouch which doesn't support migrated datasets: stderr_response: IKJ56893I DATA SET BUILD.PDSE.LOAD NOT ALLOCATED+ IGD17101I DATA SET BUILD.PDSE.LOA...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 1 Future consideration

Generate the default report as part of wazideploy-deploy and the Ansible module

Wazi Deploy comes with predefined reports for a single deployment: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=analysis-predefined-queries-in-product Instead of dedicating an extra step in the pipeline script/configuration for the r...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

Default Application Manifest extension for DBB builds in Wazi Deploy Packager

Wazi Deploy packager (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=commands-wazi-deploy-packager-command) comes with an extension option to amend information into the application manifest file. I would like to see a default extension...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Planned for future release

Introduce Wazi Deploy Config and Work directories

Wazi Deploy currently requires users to define their own strategy to maintain deployment configurations and work directories. I would like to see a simplified approach leveraging standard config and work directories: Maintain a configuration direc...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration