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Add possibility to create director when creating unit test

When creating a new unit test you usally want it in another directory in the repo than the source (i.e. /test/<program> instead of /src/cobol) It would be an enhancment if you are not forced to create the <program> directory first but ...

Test case editor unreadable with Dark theme

The test case editor is unreadable when switching to dark theme in IDz which is used by many developer Black text on dark grey background means you have to select the text to read it

Enhance Dzip to use ADRDSSU compress

I've been using Dzip to attempt to backup some datasets. Unfortunately I keep getting B37 abends during the ADRDSSU processing because the temp datasets aren't large enough that are being used. Could we get an option to enable compression during t...
19 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

Check primary DASD devices on all lpars with TEST CONFIG

Currently GDPS dasd TEST CONFIG checks, on the system on which the DASD Config is run (ie. master K), if the primary devices are accessible. With this idea we would like to extend this check, performed on the master K, to all the lpars of the rele...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Future consideration

Automatic removal of USS user content uploaded by Dependency Base Build from IDz build process to avoid impact in further builds

We are starting to receive complaints from developers using IDz Dependency Base Build due to unexpected behaviors in their build processes. Those compains are related with the build process using different copybooks than the ones the developer con...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Under review

Issue alert/warning message when PS reaches limit

Dear support, We've suffered quite a lot situations that when parallel server limit of a workstation was reached the jobs scheduled to run on that workstations were pending submission with status "Submit in progress". But we couldn't see a warning...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter, instead of having to hardcode the dataset name: In the JCL: //DDIN DD DSN=XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ,DISP=SHR In the Python code: datasets.read('//DDIN') instead of: da...
7 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Needs more information

Bulk/batch operations from the user interface

I wih that the UKO user interface had some way to import a set of keys, instead the key by key option that is possible at the moment
3 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance SuperC (ISRSUPC) to Add Option to Suppress Report Headers

Using SuperC in Batch (ISRSUPC) the ability to suppress the report headers would be helpful for applications that only need the report data.
3 months ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 1 Needs more information

Since executing a pointer checker on a broken database is highly recommended by IBM IMS, it would be beneficial for IBM IMS to supply a pointer checker utility along with all the other IMS DB utilities already supplied with IBM IMS.

Since IBM IMS chose to make the IMS Catalog a HALDB DB, it would be beneficial - for DB integrity purposes - to have a pointer check utility available for use (@ no additional cost) similar to other IMS DB utilities like the Database Image Copy ut...
5 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review