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Wazi Image Builder needs to support service ID's when authenticating to IBM Cloud

Wazi Image Builder needs to support service ID's when authenticating to IBM Cloud
11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

Isolated recordings for IMS/CICS

We do have both CICS and IMS. In our installation all the transactions arrive via front end channel applications (no 3270 screens/terminals), so our only way to record transactions in VTP is recording transactions coming from the channel. Besides,...
11 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 0 Future consideration

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

Speedup the release of license after stopping a ZD&T instance

zD&T License server release license too slow when an instance is stopped.Shutdown takes approx,. 1 min, 20 secs. After the shutdown it takes more than 6 minutes before the license are released. In total almost 8 minutes.This could lead to that...
almost 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z 0 Planned for future release

post SMPE instructions for ADCD products

Hi I would like to know post-SMPE instructions for all the ADCD products so I can do the maintenance of products I'm entitled to via shop z. Because I don't want to provision a new instance with a new level of ADCD and migrate my data. Regards Vitek
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Future consideration

cohost manualy generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC

Hi we would like to reduce the number of licensing servers to reduce maintenance overhead and complexity of our environment. Currently, zdnt license server does not allow cohosting manually generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC. When we...
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Not under consideration

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about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Functional Testing 1 Not under 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

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

document recomandation on linux lpar spec to host 10s, 50s, 100s of ZVDT instances

I'm looking for recomandations for how many LPARs, how much memory, how many IFLs, what linux kernel parameters needs to be adjusted to run dozen ZVDT instances 50+ ZVDT instances 100-500 ZVDT instances
about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 0 Planned for future release