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Provide simulator that shows what actions SA would perform during an shutdown and IPL

Provide simulator that shows what actions SA would perform during an IPL and shutdown, e.g. the sequence of the shutdown and start-up commands based on the defined relationships.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 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 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 3 Future consideration

Implement dynamic-capacity tables

Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Add an 80% warning message before zWS reaches 100% limit for adding applications of the same name. (EQQM952E & EQQM952I)

To add a 80% alert before an application reaches its limit of 1440 entries to be added. EQQM952E FAILED TO ADD APPLICATION XXXXXXEQQM952I REASON: NO UNIQUE INPUT ARRIVAL TIME LEFT IN CP FOR THIS APPLICATION This will give Scheduling team time to r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

ITOM parallel sysplex high availability

Provide capability for ITOM capture proc to run on any system in the sysplex without manual updates to parms
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Auto reroute of shadows from z/OS to Primary MDM and BMDM on failover

Any shadows from z/OS to LINUX MDMs have to be manually rerouted from Primary to Secondary even if the applications operations have auto resart and auto reroute set on them.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

simultaneous remote connections to the same host

Right now, in IDz client version 16.0.3 we are using, different remote systems pointing to the same host can be configured and distributed by p2c, but simultaneous connection is not possible. Connecting one disconnects the other, and vice versa.
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Capture the architecture of mainframe applications using REST API methods

We have an Architecture Repository to support architecture work related to the business applications. In order to get this Architecture Repository fully functioning that system must be fed with with the data that comes from the systems. Therefore ...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Local preprocessors in IDz: provide a property for the location of the BuildOutput folder

We are developing sources in IDz in combination with GIT repositories that are cloned in the workspace. When you invoke the preprocessor (for PL/1) in your editor, then the tools automatically created a BuildOutput folder in the top-level our yo...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

z/OSMF opens unnecessary Java RMI-Ports on public IP

When starting z/OSMF, it openes the configured Socket for normal work. And it also openes an secondary Port with moving port-number (every restart a different port), which gives (on usage) a message which sounds like Java RemoteMethodInvocation.Ne...
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration