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JCL IF statements do not show the IF condition in the Job Flow graph like how the Program flow chart shows it

The job flowgraph analysis does not show the exact conditions (via IF statements) based on which the specific steps are executed.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Integration z/OSMF – System Automation: Registered provisioned instances to System Automation

We are currently making the first steps in automating the provisioning of z/OS middleware such as Broker, MQ, CICS, DB2. As part of the provisioning we would like to be able to register provisioned middleware instances (started tasks, subsystems) ...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Modify INGREQ Command Dialogs AOFKVFY1

When issuing a STOP vote against a grouip, update the logic so that the INGREQ verify panel AOFKVFY1 shows ALL affected resource, not only those defined directly to the group.
about 13 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Implement: 01 var1 LIKE var2.

Often variables are defined in copybooks or DCLGEN copybooks. There are times when the definition in that copybook changes slightly and it would be nice if a developer could simply rely on the compiler to use the picture of the copybook variable a...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

Automatable IPL Complete messages (ING313/4/5)

The IPL Complete messages (ING313/4/5) are issued with DescCode 13 set, which means they cannot be trapped in the automation table. We therefore cannot alert them to our operators without defining additional rules - use MRT to remove DescCode 13.I...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Z/VM support of ZVDT

Z/VM is used extensively across enterprises
9 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
9 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Optimizing the opening of the Build Configuration tool

This change request follows the TS003720822 incident on the Build Configuration tool.Loading the list of projects in Build Configuration is very long in production.The loading time is 40 minutes for about 650 projects in production.For the record,...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

GDPS - Improve Master-Switch

The master function of a GDPS/PPRC K-System was not moved.
about 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Provide support for PANDAS

Can support be provided for the PANDAS package please? This is one of the most common and essential packages used within the Python community and is required on the z/OS platform too. Any Site/Product that provides Jupyter Notebooks for python bas...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 1 Future consideration