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Develop the functionality in File Manager to choose the encoding with a file should be downloaded to a PC through its export to desktop function

BBVA is a very important global bank with operations in Spain, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, etc. BBVA is the largest bank in Mexico, employing over one thousand of mainframe developers. These developers use IBM Developer for z for th...
3 days ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Submitted

Allow Default 'My Datasets' filter to be customised

In remote systems explorer there is a default MVS Files filter - 'My Data Sets' - that is hardcoded as '<User ID>.*', and this cannot be changed. In our organisation that the standard HLQ for user datasets and so we need the ability to custo...
1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
4 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Submitted

A trace parameter for zSA with a set-table verbose level

This is Tom Wai from TLS (Hong Kong Software Premium Support team) taking care of local z/OS accounts. Recently I had a monthly cases review meeting with HSBC's management team. In their memories, from time to time we suggested different trace set...
11 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Additional functionality to saveOutput methods in JobExec class in DBB Toolkit API to ignore DD-name/header

Hello, Currently in the different saveOutput methods in the JobExec class that uses the ddName parameter to save the output of a specific DD in an executed job the DD-name/header is included in the file that is saved as the initial line. This unfo...
4 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

Portuguese language support

We have an opportunity at Banco Bradesco, which requires that watsonx Assistant for Z be able to interact with users in Portuguese. The expected information for support in Portuguese will probably be in 1H25. Would it be possible to bring this lau...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

IBM Knowledge Catalog is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Ability to leverage the qos of the mainframe to find, understand, curate and access data.
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

Match 360 is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Able to provide 360 view of clients a cloud native environment in Open Shift on Linux on z
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

Support for Watson Query on Linux on z

Data virtualization (Watson query) is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z
3 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

IM Change Detection ability to compare using subset of time frame.

We have Near Real Time (NRT) environment where we process the data every day from 8 am - 9am, 9 am - 12pm and 2pm - 3 pm SMF time frame. We want ability to select custom time range and use same time range for comparison for every reference period ...
3 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted