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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

Exploit z/OS specific features to minimise impact of Java security changes to JCE RACF keystores

Why:Following implementation of OSB 8181692, the KeyProtector.java function increased the number of times that keystore data is encrypted from from 20 to 200,000 times. This had the effect of significantly increasing the cost when retrieving the k...
about 7 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide library javax.smartcardio

requires support for javax.smartcardio in IBM JDK 8.
over 5 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 Future 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

IDZ Software Analyzer Batch with 5 severity levels

In the IDz Client you have a choice to switch between 3 or 5 levels. This is under "Software Analyzer" -> "Severity Levels". But if you run a Batch Job you can not configure that you have 5 levels in the Rules Dataset.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

IDZ Software Analyzer Custom Rules - Add in customised message for the rules covering the section

The storage working section might consists of hundred of lines of code and the standard error displayed in this formatting: <File>:<beginning line of section> <rule description>. THis is limitation to look for the line number of ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Reverse Order Button

When multiple programs thru a batch job or thru a workspace scan the ordering of the results is always the rule and then the underlying programs with their line numbers. It makes more sense if the program is the header and then the metrics or rule...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

Using IBM Record Generator off Z/OS system with UTF-8 encoding support

Record Generator only supports EBCDIC encoding. I need it to support UTF-8 off z/OS platform.
about 7 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Option to allow ARM registration at start of the JVM using JZOS Batch Launcher

The JZOS Batch Launcher has currently no automatic restart capability when JVM crashes, such a feature that could be very helpful for critical online application or web server like Tomcat. This could be implemented by adding an option that automat...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration