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Host/Distributed SCM Integration

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Provide completion indicator and link to job output from Carma batch jobs

At our company developers are used to submit all Endevor actions in the foreground (in ISPF) and wait until the action completes. Once the action has finished they are immediately taken to the Endevor output from this action so they can see the re...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

All searching criteria should be listed as dropdowns in CARMA-Endevor

RDz used to populate the Endevor stage as a dropdown in CARMA filter. However, the dropdown list is not 100% accurate since Endevor stage code is not unique (Endevor stage name is). IBM recently release a fix that make the Endevor stage a free-for...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Need a way to check the client plugin version in CARMA RAM

We have customized our own CARMA panel to grey out some fields which we don't want developer to access. But we need a way to have checking on host side, such that it will reject the connection for all client without the particular CARMA plugin ins...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

RDz CARMA support long file name in Endevor

RDz does not yet have support for CA Endevor long names, it can now only support up to 10 characters. However Endevor allow long file name since v7 in 2005. All the existing long file name element in Endevor cannot be interface with CARMA now.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Need a way to inhibit and resume CARMA connection

We have Endevor maintenance task that need all users to leave Endevor, such that we can perform the batch job such as reorg, backup, etc. In ISPF we can do this by inhibit the Endevor panel, or even force users to logoff from TSO. With introdcing ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Enhance CARMA version history view

The "CARMA version history" view should be enhanced to break down different fields into separate column for easier reference, rather than combined all into a single "Comment" column.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Enable in RDz Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) for CA Endevor to view to execute remote syntax check on sources.

Enable in Rational Developer for System z Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) for CA Endevor to view to execute remote syntax check on sources. Currently, for Enhanced Edit (Quick Edit) & Remote Syntax check this functionality has not been implemented....
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Support Show Dependencies directly in CARMA view

Support "Show dependencies" option directly in CARMA Respoistory context menu, without retrieve to z/OS proejct.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Endevor/Carma support for userdata

Our host implementation of Endevor relies heavily on the Endevor USERDATA field stored with every version of the element in the Endevor MCF. We have used the newly introduce QuikEdit extensions to Display and Modify the Userdata. As a general rul...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Not under consideration

Integrating RDZ and RTC

Our Customer uses the RDZ for editing the files in MVS Mainframe and requested that integrated with RTC control and storage activities in SCM. We follow the guidance published in But we realize the following integration scenario:Since the moment y...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

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