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zD&T Web app provide ability to add scratch 3390 volumes to an image.

When creating a zD&T image, the user should be able to include new/empty/scratch volumes as part of the image. This would eliminate need to manually create the volume files, and add them to the devmap, and edit the IOCD.
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Natural programs called from JCL

ADDI doesn't have in JCL a special treatment for NATBATCH so we don't treat it as NATURAL program call interface. This functionality is very important for the customer.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

A mechanism should be given to prevent the system from being paused (via pausc) for more than a couple of minutes

The pausc macro is used to stop all activity on other i-streams so critical fields can be updated. It is mean to be only done for a really short time. If the system does not get unpaused for some reason, Input list shutdown will occur and the and ...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need OpenID Connect for Liberty Webserver to work with DBB

Current Security Model used by DBB - LDAP or internal security are not approved standards for security at Bank of America.
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty Urimap disabled error

We are deploying Liberty apps with the application platform context. This means we have a cics bündle containing a urimap, warfile, etc. which can be enabled with an application. The developers now wanted to do a bugfix in Version 1.0.0 in an appl...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Highlite negative statuses in Supersession

This is additional request for delivered RFE in https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CLSS-I-73 We like the new feature, but we'd like to have also possibility or 3rd color position in KLSOPTHL to be able to also highlight negative Ses...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Applications not installed after JVM error

We had an timout error in the JVM. This caused, that after a cold start the installed apps in application/platform context have not been installed. After changing this to a warm start now it works, but on this weekend we installed new PTFs and we ...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for older version of rocket git, specifically options in .gitattributes file

Please allow backward compatibility of IDz to work with options defined in older version of Rocket Git. Updates for tools can take a long time to complete and having newer versions IDz incompatible with specific versions of Rocket Git causes numer...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

Allow on the fly changes to .gitattributes to take effect immediately

Please allow changes to .gitattributes files to take effect immediately. Currently, only a new clone of the repo will force IDz to update file tags, however, that is slow and cumbersome.
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Improved Access Controls around IMS data

As we look at the idea of accessing IMS data via SQL through ODBM, we see some rather glaring Security issues that could expose us to, that would be addressed using a similar concept to what DB2 is doing with Roles & Trusted Context and AUTH t...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

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