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VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
about 2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Allow Default 'My Datasets' filter to be customised

In remote systems explorer there is a default MVS Files filter - 'My Data Sets' - that is hardcoded as '<User ID>.*', and this cannot be changed. In our organisation that the standard HLQ for user datasets and so we need the ability to custo...
19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

Add sudo to the OEF

sudo is the ideal way to invoke authorized (superuser) tools under OMVS and should be included with OEF since it isn't provided as part of the IBM z/OS USS set of tools.
2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 3 Under review

Maintain Global Information for IMS Programs

Please add support to maintain IMS program global status in RM, similar to the current support for transactions, databases and database areas, GSTSTRAN, GSTSDB and GSTSAREA. Support for programs with GSTSPGM would allow stopping and starting progr...
5 months ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Future consideration

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

ADDI Server code to notify unsupported Java

ADDI Server does not check that pre-reqs are in place. If ADDI Server is being installed on a supported version of Java JDK, memory/CPU requirements, etc. Solution: A warning to notify the user that the pre-reqs are not in place, such as "Version ...
6 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Enable RACF passticket support for users creating API’s in Design Center to make calls to IMS.

Currently we are leveraging RACF Passticket support for many things within zCEE and it would be beneficial to have this capability for users who are creating API's in Design Center to make calls to IMS
17 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Additional functionality to saveOutput methods in JobExec class in DBB Toolkit API to ignore DD-name/header

Hello, Currently in the different saveOutput methods in the JobExec class that uses the ddName parameter to save the output of a specific DD in an executed job the DD-name/header is included in the file that is saved as the initial line. This unfo...
22 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

Provide soultion to automate setting of CICS options

We are looking to automate our mainframe testing. We are using the RSE API to enable automatic submission of jobs. With jobs adding hourglass options is trivial with the correct dd names, but with CICS we only have the BMS panels with HGCC and HGU...
about 1 month ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Future consideration

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