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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...
12 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

Portuguese language support

We have an opportunity at Banco Bradesco, which requires that watsonx Assistant for Z be able to interact with users in Portuguese. The expected information for support in Portuguese will probably be in 1H25. Would it be possible to bring this lau...
2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Execute Dump through GDPS in 3th site

In the 3th site there is no option to take a stand alone dump through GDPS. We experience issues with IPLing cyber vault systems. A stand alone dump is absolutely necessary for an accurate analysis and for the support from IBM side. There should b...
8 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

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...
15 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

Please provide means for CSQLIGHT/DRLSLOGP to enrich log with SYSPLEX_NAME, MVS_SYSTEM_ID and even IMS_CTRL_REGION

The COLLECT CSQ for IMS depends on the IMS_SYSTEM_NAMES lookup table. However, any shop having the same IMS_SYSTEM_IDs on all their SYSPLEX environments (PROD/QUAL/DEV) have to manually set the SYSPLEX_NAME, MVS_SYSTEM_ID, IMS_CTRL_REGION making i...
5 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Eclipse interface for Omegamon CICS and CTG

Eclipse interface to Omegamon CICS and CTG would easier to navigate the Omegamon views; within one Toolkit. The CICS; CTG; CICS Omgamon; CTG Omegamon Plugins would be in the same desktop environment.
6 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Client 0 Submitted

Enable "Display temporary datasets" by default

Users naturally assume reports contain 'all instances of usage' for given resources, hiding some resources by default for a secondary metric only results in confusion. This is especially true since there is no marker or notification of 'temporary ...
7 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

cohost manualy generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC

Hi we would like to reduce the number of licensing servers to reduce maintenance overhead and complexity of our environment. Currently, zdnt license server does not allow cohosting manually generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC. When we...
8 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z 0 Submitted

ZOAU zIIP eligibility

We're using Python on Z and ansible-collections/ibm_zos_core with zoau under the hood for increasingly large portions of our z/OS CI workload.While Python, in which ibm_zos_core written, is zIIP eligible, we suspect that zoau's modules are not (ou...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

IBM Knowledge Catalog is a currently available feature in CP4D but it's not available for s390x architecture. This feature is needed on Linux on z

Ability to leverage the qos of the mainframe to find, understand, curate and access data.
13 days ago in IBM Cloud Pak for Data on IBM Z 0 Submitted

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