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ADDI is missing to show procs and control cards

TD Bank decided to use ADDI 5.1.0.4 and they were investigating about the file layout and control cards impacted. ADDI shows the impacted JCLs listed along with the step names and Programsalone. However, ADDI does NOT show any Procs and/or control...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support native SOCKS proxy configuration

With the integration to WatsonX Code Assistant, connection to DB2 on Cloud is needed. Often the ADDI server is required to be on-premises for security reasons and this is inside a firewalled environment. If the software contained native support fo...
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Fix of the issue where internal variables can be corrupted if a failure occurs during information transmission between GM-K and GM-R

Previously, there was a suggestion from the Development team that simultaneous initialization of GM-K and GM-R might corrupt internal variable information. However, even if we were to avoid simultaneous initialization, it was found that there is s...
10 months ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

ZUnit: Filter option for displaying fields in the Test Case Editor

In the Test Case Editor, all fields defined in the program and/or in the Copybook are displayed. Both the referenced and the unused fields are presented, which leads to the fact that with a compatible extension of Copybooks (and thus to a multipli...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Replace /usr/lpp/cicsts in the CICS Web Assistant script with a variable similar to PATHPREF or USSDIR

Remove hard coded zFS address from the DFHLS2WS (and associated) scripts
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

JSON PARSE error handling messages filter

Cobol Developer coding the JSON parsing and associated Error Handling For JSON PARSE statement, provide a mechanism for the application code to indicate which JSON-STATUS conditions are acceptable and which are to be considered errors.
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Support "EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" in ZUnit

"EXEC CICS ADDRESS TWA" is a common syntax using in CICS, without the support we have a large portion of application team cannot adopt ZUnit.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

API to Return RACF Custom Fields

Capability similar to the Call ‘CBLTDLI' USING AUTH I/O_PCB I/O_AREA API to view a signed on user's additional RACF details from the segments that are defined to that Userid most specially the RACF Custom Fields that are defined for that user. Cur...
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

WebServices support in AD

RFE opened on behalf of BNNP BNPP would like to load information describing z/OS Webservices in the AD datamodel. BNPP would like to perform queries (graphs and reports) integrated with other standard AD data. The WebServices that should be fully ...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Update DFSFDLS0 to disable OPTCD=W for virtual tape subsystems

Please make the changes for IMS to allow me to disable OPTCD=W for tape logging with a parameter in //DFSVSAMP a permanent feature of IMS. This was originally released to the IMS population as a usermod created by Dave Viguers. It needs to be buil...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration