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TWS/OPC scheduler manual load to ADDI without AD Connect

Hi, We have applications on 2 Mainframe LPARs. On one LPAR we have CA7 scheduler while on another LPAR we have OPC scheduler. We do not have AD connect as request for security enhancement on AD connect as per our requirement is pending with IBM si...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

AD - Program call graph enhancements

Enhance AD call graph visualization 1. Where it shows the program call from a JCL, show the step name which calls the program2. for Hogan calls, please show the Hogan Activity using which the call is made to program, DB etc This RFE is raised as d...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement request to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI

Client requested the enhancement to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI.He wants to accelerate understanding by comparing with alias in Japanese specification document and ADDI.If t...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enhance IBM JZOS API to throw an exception when a Java application tries to read a corrupted VSAM dataset

As part of an application conversion from Assembler to Java, we've found an issue related to error handling where the JZOS API does not handle well. In our case it is related to accessing a corrupt VSAM file, and we've seen the same outcome when r...
10 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Filter the graphs screen

Could it be possible to filter the screen like the graph inventory? The purpose is to get a screen that will be more fit for the users needs. It could be a good assets also for WCA4z.
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Keys or passtickets to connect DB2 server

Currently DB2 server is connected/configured using service id and password in dashboard (-> Configure -> Servers & security tab -> Relational database server). There is requirement to replace DB2 server credentials (service id and pas...

Allow RACF digital certificate registration from Java interface

Currently the only way to allow users to self register their personal certificates, from CAC or PIV cards, is to use the ASIS self registration tool provided in SYS1.SAMPLIB(RACINSTL). While this tool works we are running into issue where browsers...
6 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

ZFile open-mode API

The ZFile "options" parameter to the constructor/reopen() method is based on the C-style fopen() API, but does not have an entirely clear correspondance to COBOL file open options (INPUT, OUTPUT, I-O, EXTEND); it would be useful to COBOL-using cli...
7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

JZOS Fields annotation library

The JZOS field-creation API is somewhat verbose, while Java developers are used to annotation-based serialization librarys (e.g. Jackson, Hibernate). With suitable choices of defaults, an annotation library could with very little annotation burden...
7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ByteBuffer / Charset interface for JZOS fields

There are a couple more-modern Java APIs that it would be useful to use in JZOS fields. In particular, the fact that the working character set is exposed in the API as a String charset name rather than a java.nio.Charset object imposes some inconv...
7 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration