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Cloud enable ADDI servers

Currently the servers for ADDI are set up to be physical or virtual machines. It is configured for that particular installation. Others that tried using the cloud solution had to build an image for that particular instance and had to build another...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

AD Build Decisions for PL/I source code

See PMR number 31216 999 624:We are using Application Discovery Build Client to build AD projects for applications (mainly) written in PL/I. I noticed the 'Decisions' feature in the Build Client is not supported for PL/I source code, only for COBO...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Alter output location for message DFS2014 DFS2015 DFS2016 DFS2017 DFS2018

Alter messages DFS2014 DFS2015 DFS2016 DFS2017 DFS2018 to appear on IMS Control region SYSTEM JOB log as well as the MTO or instead of the MTO
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

EGL Genrator targeting WAS Batch Enviroment

An option in the EGL generator for targeting the WAS Batch/ Extended Deployment Compute Grid as a runtime environment for Java-generated EGL programs
almost 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

support for IPv6 during provisioning new zos

I want to be able to provision a new zos with an IPv6 address.
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

Suggestion for the Sync file between AD and ChangeMan

A couple of suggestions which could help with some of the configuration issues between Application Discovery and ChangeMan. Suggestion would be to allow for enhanced generics for members of a PDS, exclusion of members from PDS, and multiple entrie...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE should be protected separately

Provide a mechanism to separate out the permission for performing a normal shutdown vs any other, such as immediate.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

New QUOTREM() builtin

There are times when both the quotient and remainder of a division are important, such as when working with times, where it may be far more convenient to work with minutes or even seconds, then directly with the unwieldy hh:mm[:ss] format.
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

AD and report list customization

Sun Life Insurance is interested in a capability where they could hide/show reports available in the report list according to their convenience. Also, Sun Life would like to have the feature to rename the reports available in AD report list to som...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU usage of writing x'99' logs by zIIP offload

We are planning to use IIDR for IMS for next disaster recovery system. We need to change DBD definitions of source IMS system to write x'99' logs for replication. We conducted performance test on the source IMS system with x'99' logs and CPU cost ...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration