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    AAM should issue a WTOR to alert when an attempt is made to activate an invalid RULEDEF

    When an attempt to activate a RULEDEF fails due to a syntax error AAM generates scrollable messages and keeps processing with the current rules. AAM should issue a WTOR to notify the storage administrator or the error and to provide a RULEDEF or c...
    7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Allow for 'AAMplex' command processing

    When AAM is running in a SYSplex, if all tasks are have the same name the MVS ROUTE command can be used to send the same command to all LPARs. Outside of a SYSplex this may not be possible in which case the same command needs to be issued on any n...
    7 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Enhance existing R/W variable support with R/O variables

    AAM introduced R/W variables which can be used to store constants for later evaluation. AAM should consider all selection criteria as R/O variables which can also be stored in the R/W variables for later evaluation.
    9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Improve performance for running code review by JCL

    When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    Enable support for DD DUMMY

    When DUMMY is coded on the DD statement it is bypassed by AAM, but it is possible to code additional allocation keywords like UNIT=. If UNIT= specifies an unknown ESOTERIC the job will fail even with DUMMY specified. AAM cannot be used to override...
    9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    IDZ Software Analyzer Custom Rules - Create Rule for JCL components for JCL files and Copybook components for Copybook files

    The java package for creating COBOL custom rules under IDZ Software Analyzer only support cobol components. An interface is created for Copybook components but no class is created for Copybook components. This is similar to the case for JCL compon...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

    Allow multiple selections for DSORG selection keyword

    Enhance the DSORG selection keyword to allow for multiple selections to enable OR processing for an INCLUDE statement. Only allowing a single selection requires multipe duplicate INCLUDE statements which complicates the rule definitions and subseq...
    11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Enable a RENAME environment in AAM

    Allowing AAM to intercept rename can provide naming enforcement that cannot be restricted by security.
    11 months ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    General codingrules missing in static analysis

    Add 3 more coding rules regarding static analysis that we think should be in IDz by default. 1. Strings should only be moved to variables large enough to hold them without truncation https://rules.sonarsource.com/cobol/type/Bug/RSPEC-3921 2. Colla...
    over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 3 Future consideration

    To Dsiplay the "Correct Usage" of an Error when clicked on an Error after doing Softwat Analyzer in IDZ

    Like in SonarQube, if you click on an error, it will display the non-compliance and compliance usage, based on this the developer will know how to correct/fix the error / issue in the code. So the expectation is the same in IDZ S/A as well.
    about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

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