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Support for cAdvisor and Node-exporter to report performance statistics of ZCX and the containers running in the ZCX instance.

We are using ZCX at at a client site. We want to have a performance dashboard about ZCX and the containers running in the ZCX instance. Because we have a license for CDP the idea was raised to see if we can create such a dashboard with the combina...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Future consideration

COBOL: Catch use of wrong index

Case: TS006008227Summary: The COBOL compiler should warn when the wrong index is used Details: In COBOL the data division INDEXED BY phrase is used to associate an index with a table. “A table without an INDEXED BY phrase can be referred to throug...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Backup for IMS Directories and BSDS - have flexibility to utilize GDGs and set the BACKUP HLQ (with IMSID being added).

We currently backup our IMS Catalog using the following naming standard and GDG's. IMG2*2.IC1.DFSCD000.DFSCD01A <where * is the IMS environment suffix>IMG2*2.IC1.DFSCD000.DFSCD01A.GxxxV00 Our intent is to backup the IMS Catalog, Directories ...
3 months ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Installation - Customization 1 Future consideration

Clean up type (CLN_Ty) in Error Handler Layout (1) doesn’t provide enough details or (2) wasting spaces on Error hander layout

Hello, Clean up type (CLN_Ty) can be set on he TWS error handler layout – see PIC1. It can have 4 values: A (Automatic), I (immediate), M (Manual), N (None) – see PIC2. This CLN_Ty uses 6 characters from the Layout. I would like to suggest two/thr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Allow larger variable length fields beyond the current limit of 32767

We’re proposing an enhancement to z/OS Connect’s OPENAPI2 to better handle larger variable length fields. Currently, to accommodate large data returned by our apiRequester endpoint, we’re required to set the varying field to a fixed length (charac...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Remove empty fields from API responses

In the OpenAPI3 z/OS Connect Designer, there is currently no way to remove empty fields (i.e. "abcd" : "") from the API response. The OpenAPI2 API toolkit allowed us to easily do this. It would be beneficial performance wise to remove such fields ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

In OAS3, we still need a method to develop services using program communication areas to generate services from existing processes

The yaml OAS3 input document is not something most mainframe developers would have knowledge of how to develop correctly. However, they know how existing process and programs are working. Since a significant use of z/OS Connect is to expose access...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

izsam should integrate with servicenow

izsam has good understanding of the installed products on z system. This is good information for the servicenow cmdb.
10 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

API toolkit - API Requestor capability

Currently the toolkit provides little or no support for creation, generation or deployment of API requestor services. In tandem with API's with multiple services and complex / large data structures this leads to consider devt overheads using the t...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

DBB: C and C++ compile support including ErrorFeedback

Currently only PLI, Cobol and Assembler compiles with ErrorFeedback are supported in the latest DBB version of IDz16. For the programming languages C and C++ there is no standard support. A custom implementation in Groovy for the C and C++ compile...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

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