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Implement security for creating, modifying and removing ETT

IWS provited a detailed protection for the most objects via authority groups.Creating, modifying and removing ETTs in the database does not have similar security features as the authority groups implements. It is just possible to protect ETT eleme...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

ADDI cannot generate metadata for COBOL stored procedures

Ford has hundreds of COBOL/Db2 Stored procedures. They would like to modernize these stored procedures using Watsonx Code Assistant for Z(WCAZ), but since ADDI is unable to generate metadata for Stored Procedures, WCAZ is unable to refactor or tra...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Please Add Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Support to z/OSMF Connection(s) in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3

After migrating to MFA at our organization, our z/OSMF connections in IBM Explorer for z/OS Aqua 3.3 became obsolete due to lack of support for MFA. In the interest of security and standardization, please consider adding MFA support to z/OSMF. Tha...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Support running 64-bit program objects (load modules) with mvscmd

Running 64-bit programs is needed since 64-bit C/C++/COBOL compilers have been available.
5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files. Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to: Have a cr...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Silent printing using Print API

The ability to print a document(s) received using the print API without having the user to use the print preview on their browser for each document sent. current applicative solution is a pop-up window on the client side browser holding the HTML c...
2 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

.NET Core+ versions of EntireX DLLs

Microsoft has been clear for sometime that .NET Core and beyond is where their support for the .NET platform lies now. The .NET versions of the EntireX runtimes have languished in .NET Framework with no sign of .NET Core support. If you're serious...
2 months ago in EntireX 2 Under review

Omegamon for z/OS needs to adjust the skip&count formula

The Omegamon for z/OS skip&count formula being used to determine which TCPIP port various Omegamon components bind to needs to be adjusted so the range of ports selected are in a more refined group of ports instead of spread out across the 65K...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DWC should not be installed in z/OS UNIX in a zFS filesystem with read/write access

Within the current design, we would like to see a clear segregation between the files which REQUIRE write access from the files for which READ access would be sufficient, within the "USERDIR" directory. The standard executables should be delivered...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Use PgmModuleMap.txt for IMS TM besides JCL

There is now way to map IMS TM program to an differently named entrymodule in ADDI (besides decisions that can't be automated) when the Main and entry module has different names. This result in analyze chain being broken and part of the value of A...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

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