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Setting to disable advanced remote error feedback

With the advanced problems view integration of DBB User build, the build is automatically equipped with the --errPrefix cli argument for the build framework. Some build framework implementations might not support creating the error feedback file, ...
1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Future consideration

Automated check of RSEAPI host component version level

IBM Developer for z/OS on VS Code should automatically check the RSEAPI host component version level and validate if it is on a supported level. For example when the user is on the Welcome Page, in the prerequisites section: In case RSEAPI is dete...
1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Submitted

An enhancement on the graph so that the program to transaction link is displayed somehow even when that program is complied as part of the AD Project

When building CSD data Configuration objects, ADDI is not recognizing some of the transactions in some of the Groups within the CSD.

Improve synchronization process

Reduces time spent during component synchronization, when components are transferred from z/OS into AD server. Idea is like instead of doing full sync for all datasets (PDS/MVS) in the project, making some quick pre-scan, that would indicate if an...

Validation check function update

In March 2022, we will switch Microfocus's configuration management system (ZMF) to BMC's ISPW.After switching to ISPW, the validation check function that is executed by connecting to ZMF cannot be used.Therefore, please update so that the validat...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time

ADDI/wca4z: Windows Authentication mode and mixed mode authentication for the SQL Server Database Engine at setup time For security reasons, my client explicitly requests the use of Windows authentication, not SQL. However, currently, the only sup...

Write all logs to disk at regular intervals so progress can be identified if the exe throws an un-trapped error

We have had a couple of instances where a build has been progressing and unexpectedly failed due to an un-trapped error. As all logs are built in memory and only written to disk at the end of the process, trying to identify or narrow down the pote...

When using IBM Z Open Editor MCP server via Roo Code, allow the capability to use a ZOWE profile other than the default

Multi-Sysplex environments requires multiple ZOWE host profiles, currently the IBM Z Open Editor MCP server only considers the default ZOWE host profile. It would be beneficial to direct an IBM Z Open Editor MCP server to different LPARs without h...
27 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Future consideration

Provide capability to easily find a CICS transaction without knowing which project contains it

In large shops with a large application inventory, a developer trying to understand a transaction flow in CICS; would need to be able to easily find that transaction and generate a Transaction call graph. Today, the developer has to know which pro...

Add support for UTF-8 in buildclient

When cloning sources from git, they come as UTF-8 encoding. Build client requires source code in cp1252. It would be good to add support for utf-8 for sources, to avoid creating workarounds during git clones