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    CICS CM CHECKSUM in package display

    In CICS CM when viewing the components of a package via 3.x.2, displaying the checksum with packaged components would save customers time by allowing them to verify checksums of components in a package at one time.
    over 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

    Software Analysis : code review rules for C programs

    Many rules are defined for COBOL, PL1 or JAVA programs, but none for C programs.
    over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

    Equal amount of IF / END-IF statements

    Would be nice to have in Cobol editor syntax check or in software analysis a feature which calculates IF and END-IF statements. A warning or even error in case of not equal amount of those.
    over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 4 Not under consideration

    Enhance the z/OS Explorer CM plugin​ to support MFA

    CICS Configuration Manager V5.4Our application teams have requested the ability to use the CM plugin as an alternative to the ISPF panels. In order to achieve this we would require the CM plugin be enhanced to support MFA.
    about 6 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 0 Future consideration

    Package Software Analyzer as OCI to use with zCX

    We would like to be able to run Software Analyzer inside a container as part of our pipeline. It would likely be inside zCX but in the end it could also be on x86. This will ultimately depend on the build environment our customer uses. We are vers...
    over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    Software analyzer : Documentation explaining code conformity/violations with examples

    Some of the existing software analyzer built-in rules are not very comprehensive with examples. It is becoming more difficult to read code violation report and correct themselves by developers. For example built-in rule "Avoid using 88-entries in ...
    almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    CICS CM Agent Functionality

    Currently the agent handles CEDA INSTALL, we would like to see it also handle CEDA DEFINE. We plan to use CM agent for our remote CICS region and having to manually NDM or xmit the CSD DEFINE commands to the remote site and then run batch job to s...
    almost 7 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

    IDz Software Analyzer should work with many Programs

    In IDz you can select multiple Programs in the Software Analyzer Configurations. When you for example select "Analyze selected projects" for a Project with 902 Cobol Files you will get an error. Please see Ticket "IDz Software Analyzer could not p...
    over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

    Usage of Software Analyser with EWM EE

    When one wants to trigger a scan, the pop-ups expose a view of the EWM folders connected to IDZ. Unfortunately it is not possible to trigger an analysis from these folders
    over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

    Program Analyzer should install custom rules in writeable USS folder and not in usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr

    Currently, the Program Analyzer is installed in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg. This location is read-only, so we cannot save our own rules in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr. The usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr folder should be moved to a writable location (perhaps /var/...). As a wor...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

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