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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...
3 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...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

GDPS PREVENTS USE OF XCF FUNCTION

Bradesco bank uses GDPS for all Sysplex related maintenance as recommended in the GDPS manuals. However, when there is a need for updates in the CFRM policy customer would like to make use of the DISPLAY XCF,REALLOCATE,TEST command to check for po...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

EQQ messages for jobs NOPed and SR availability change

Dear IWSz development team, Due to batch monitor requirement, we're looking for EQQ messages for the circumstances: 1) When a job is NOPed. 2) When a job is Held. 3) When SR availability is changed, especially when SR is changed to AVAIL(YES) no m...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 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.
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Changing variable substitution for sending emails when an alert condition occurs by the controller task to match the same behavior as job tailoring works

As providing a multi-tenant system with TWS becomes increasingly important due to the decentralization of work to various groups within the company, it is beneficial to minimize the variations in rules for variable substitution for users. Therefor...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Upgrade Kafka Client

The Kafka broker version we use is well in advance in compare to the Kafka Client 2.8.1. It produces unnecessary warnings on z/TPF. Moreover we would like to be proactive and be open to new features as well as to keep security enhancements u...
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

AD - Analyze client Legend icon shall appear in the menu bar next to other icons, but not under expandable menu

On AD Analyze client v611 we found that Legend icon is not visible any longer next to other icons (on this small menu bar), but instead it is hidden under pop-up menu. This is not very convenient, as when needed to use this Legend icon feature, de...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Enable the Open Enterprise Foundation (OEF) ported tools to be zIIP Enabled

Please consider enabling all of the ported tools included with the Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS to be zIIP capable. This will encourage their use while providing greater capabilities for the OEF customers.
6 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need Remote Connection Emulator to support interface that is displayed in unformatted mode.

The IDz v16 documentation indicates the following limitation for the Remote Connection Emulator: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/16.0?topic=eclipse-connecting-zos-by-using-remote-connection-emulator#intro__limitations Remote Connecti...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 5 Future consideration

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