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Only one API can be re-executed in the zCEE server Refresh command

'- When the Refresh command is executed, all new deployment file APIs in the deployment path are refreshed.- When deploying a server, it is hoped that other APIs will not be affected (for HotDeploy purposes), but there is no function to refresh by...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Maintain variable names when importing copybooks from API Toolkit

'- When loading copybook from API Toolkit, the "-" (Dash) character is changed to "_" (Underbar). M/F standard variable name naming rules are different from the standardization issue and can become a point of failure due to developer's error. (ex)...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Support for multiple distribution paths

'- Supports only a single deployment directory per build file type for both inbound and outbound (ex) <WLP_USER_DIR>/servers/<serverName>/resources/zosconnect/services- It is impossible to separate folders by application code (customer...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Provide the ability to switch users from within a Remote Systems Explorer session

We currently have 2 levels of authorization for several of our software products...one for use on a day to day basis by users and another that is used for more critical/protected functionality like deployments and system configurations. To accompl...
19 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

New configuration setting for the IDz GUI "z/OS UNIX Files" to restrict the recursive deletion of directories

With the IDz GUI “z/OS UNIX Files” it is easy to start a recursive deletion of Unix directories. IDz will give you a warning before. If you confirm the whole tree will be deleted. In native Unix System Services it is possible to use an alias for t...
2 months ago in z/OS Explorer 0 Under review

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Under review

SA-internal command HSAET32 should generate a meaningful error message in the event of a problem.

If an SA/NetView is restarted, all HSAET32 are rebuilt and this is logged with ON in netlog. Sometimes this doesn't work and the checker returns a "HSAET32 status ended, RC=1007". so what's the problem? In our case we have some trouble with the ...
4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

IBM z-open editor extension on Visual Studio Code support for C/C++

Some users still use C/C++ in their shop. Adding C/C++ support in the IBM z-open editor extension will benefit with DBB.
14 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build / VSCODE 0 Under review

Add which port to the product

Please consider adding the which port available from the zopen community to be one of the tools provided via the product.
about 1 month ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow multiple selections for DSORG selection keyword

Enhance the DSORG selection keyword to allow for multiple selections to enable OR processing for an INCLUDE statement. Only allowing a single selection requires multipe duplicate INCLUDE statements which complicates the rule definitions and subseq...
15 days ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Under review

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