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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

Support RACF Keyring keystore type.

Dear, Currently the Java keystore and the script importCertificate.sh is the only supported method for handling certificates to secure communications between the Data Streamer and subscribers and RACF® keyring is not supported. This approach is no...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Need function to run CDP Log Forwarder data source discovery function on demand

Provide a function to allow the Common Data Provider data source discovery function to run once, when commanded by a user. This would often be used when Discovery Interval and Pattern Discovery Interval are set to 0 (due to CPU usage requirements)...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

CDP CPU usage by workstream

We currently run a single log forwarder and datastreamer on each LPAR. They gather various sysouts and operlog entries for multiple applications to a number of different Splunk and Elastik servers.Require the ability to determine how much CPU each...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Future consideration

Provide Batch configuration tool

This is a request to enhance and improve CDP configuration with a batch type interface. Currently CDP provides a web-based userinterface that is provided as a plug-in to z/OSMF for administer policies. For large implementations this is cumbersome,...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 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

enable capture when engine tasks are down for any reason

Currently if an engine task is taken down such as for product maintenance, i.e. the SMF engine, any records cut in the period it is down are lost and not streamed to the target. This is obviously an unacceptable loss of data in the real time monit...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

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

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