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    Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

    Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

    UserBuild enabled IDEs to pass dependency set for uploading to USS

    Problem: We are facing an issue where a certain type of programs dependencies are not being discovered during the user build. The program will compile just fine as long as the dependencies are available on USS. So one challenge is to get all the r...
    about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 5 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

    JDK LCM for IBM Installation Manager and Package Utility

    Installation Manager and Package Utility is considered a threat for our mission critical applications by our security department, because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 8. This version is considered out of date and does not receive t...
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

    Add ability to toggle on and off quotes around DBB IDz User Build entry for paths that have a user name with a # or # in the path

    We are encountering issues with DBB and the dbb-zappbuild scripts that we believe are the result of the UserID naming strategy for the environment.On the system we are currently trying to test in all UserIDs follow a naming convention which includ...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Needs more information

    zUnit need to support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

    We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

    Alternative schema to be searched in place of the SYSIBM schema

    The Catalog navigation function requires read access to several Db2 system catalog tables. In some cases, system administrators deliberately do not grant access to SYSIBM. Instead, a set of views, or copies of the system catalog tables are in an a...
    8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

    When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox.

    When we compile a program using DBB UserBuild in IDz, it shows wrong information in the build report and creating some wrong files in the sandbox and would liek have a fix ASAP in next 17.x version. This is really leading to some confusion during ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Is a defect

    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

    SQL code completion - better suggestions

    The SQL code completion in idz 17.0.2 using ctrl+space always displays all db2 objects such as schemas, tables and columns.I can define a schema filter via the preference.With many tables it is still difficult to recognize which objects I want to ...
    4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

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