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Enhance DBB User Build to wait for COBOL language server readiness after VS Code reload

Scenario After launching (or relaunching) VS Code, we open a simple “Hello World” COBOL batch program in IBM Z Open Editor. If we run DBB user build (or run DBB user build with full upload) immediately, the build aborts with the error below. If we...
27 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build / VSCODE Needs more information

Provide some way to take an SVC dump when message KCP8906I is issued

We're seeing this in some cases, ait it's not clear when it's happening. Without taking some sort of dump, it's impossible to know.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality Needs more information

Detecting inoperable subsystem to be decommissioned ( middleware CICS , DB2 , MQ , IMS )

In Health Exceptions, enable a "bottom line" parameter , in opposite to threshold, to filter out low or no activity in metrics indicators like paging , CPU consuming and virtual memory usage. If this behavior persists in a time period is a candida...
11 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Needs more information

New CICS API to FORCE switch TCB from QR to L8 (THREADSAFE)

Today, for a program to benefit from the advantages of TREADSAFE, it necessarily needs to access DB2 or MQUEUE, a functionality that not all programs have in their code. A second way is to define the program with the parameter CONCURRENCY=REQUIRED...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime Needs more information

Console / Dashboard for Vision Automator Health

Systems Admin, and Intellimagic Admin. It would be great if the windows components that comprise the vision automator would come packaged with a 'console'. Currently when I want to check status of activities, I need to open my current days log fil...
11 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Needs more information

DWC: Include Dynamic Workload Console software in the ZWS software order process instead of requiring a separate Fix Central download

All software deliveries should be retrieved through approved, "closed" software distribution pipelines, with software integrity verified throughout the process. Today, the majority of software retrievals are highly automated. z/OSMF portable softw...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler Needs more information

Allow selective EXPORT of reports from a Dashboard

Currently there is no ability in a Dashboard to select reports(s) that are to be EXPORTed. It is either an all or nothing approach. I have built a dashboard that has 28 reports and would like to only 4 of these reports via a Scheduled Export to ou...
11 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Needs more information

Browser Back Refresh Attack

The back and forward buttons on the browser make use of history to display the pages that the user visited recently. The browser also keeps track of the variables that were sent as part of the request to the server for each page. The refresh featu...
about 2 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other Needs more information

Have mvscmd.execute_authorized respect PPT settings

I'm trying to run DSNUTILB under zoau. It is an apf authorized program, so I'm calling it using mvscmd.execute_authorized. It starts, but ends with a Db2 reason code 00E40002, indicating that the program is running in the wrong key. Program DSNUTI...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities Needs more information

Silo-off reports by Application and only allow READ access to that silo for a subset of those Application users without them having access to any other options in the Web Reporter

Provide the capability to be able to silo-off reports by Application and only allow READ access to that silo for a subset of those Application users without them having access to any other options in the Web Reporter. We have a number of Clients r...
11 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Needs more information

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