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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

Ability to debug EGL web services running on WAS

Currently it is not possible to debug an EGL web service which is running on a WAS. The only possible way to debug such a service is to write a (small) client which calls that service anddebug it that way. In that way you are however not testing t...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

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

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

In RBD EGL generated to Java we cannot get a top level array in JSON to convert into an object

Many RESTful services return results with a top-level array. EGL does not support converting this JSON to record. (IBM Support case TS013710542 was opened on this issue with the recommendation following from IBM that and RFE be created.) In EGL un...
over 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

ZD&T Fixed/Term License Renewals are not clearly visible in LKC, nor are the licenses available until the day after the current/existing licenses expire.

The problems: 1) The renewal Sales Order shows in LKC, but simply says “No licenses available for this Order” with no indication that this will ever change. 2) There is guaranteed ZD&T License outage which will vary depending on the customer l...
over 2 years ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-Demand Environments 1 Future consideration

Debug EGL code invoked from any language

It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
over 10 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Not under consideration

JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for RBD to RAM disk

Client need to improve the project build performance in RBD, so they have following suggestion to improve performance: 1.To change temp file (ex: .ir) output directory for Rational Business Developer tool (ver. 9.6, 9.5.1, 9.5) for the RAM disk 2....
over 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration