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Extend COPY-to-PDS API to link to buildFile

Today, the Transfer.groovy script of zAppBuild allows us to push non-buildable files through the pipeline. All MVSExec execute records are showing a relative file path of the repository based on the build file reference. It would be consistent, if...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Functionality already exists

Automation Status file cleaning tool

The ASF file is used to store events reported as errors. They are used to set the threshold values for various automation processes. Thresholds are specified as number of occurences in time windows and the largest is 24 hours. So events older than...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Support dynamic STEPLIB for CSLULXSB (Rexx/SPOC) interface

Would promote greater flexibility by avoiding the need to allocate the IMS RESLIB before ISPF initialization.
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Not under consideration

Keep current project available and discoverable while doing a Build/MAKE

Keep the current ADDI project available for discovery while it is rebuild or a MAKE is run. Only make the new project image discoverable once all phases of the build completed. User impact: This prevents bad design decisions or failed discover act...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

zSort Support for zWS

Allow usage of the hardware accelerated approach to sorting by z/OS Workload Scheduler (zWS) to take advantage of the IBM Integrated Accelerator for Z Sort. The aim will be to reduce the CPU costs and improve the elapsed time for eligible batch wo...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect - gRPC support

z/OS Connect supports the creation/consumption of RESTful APIs. As several customers use gRPC as their internal intercommunication protocol, it would be helpful to have that support also in z/OS Connect.
10 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enable recording for Cobol VS II

We are in a process to migrate from Cobol II to Enterprise Cobol and zVTP would be a great resource to help us test but we can't record using Cobol II, we've got an abend S0C4 during the recording.
over 1 year ago in Z Virtual Test Platform 0 Future consideration

Add ability to convert subfields in SDF to IDz BMS maps

Customer is currently working on conversion of maps from SDF to IDz BMS maps editor.Using IDz BMS Map Editor, subfields do not import over to IDz. IDz does not currently support subfields.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Guarantee LG_DEFER Waits Do Not Exceed LGDFINT

When two tasks with higher than normal VSAM activity are simultaneously routed to the same target region, there can be extended delays related to LGDFINT. The calculations LGDFINT uses to determine whether to force or defer a log write can be skew...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the JCL Parser to enable ControlM specific code

We have some JCL that contains some ControlM specific code which are decode by ControlM before submission. Some of those JCL can't be add in AD because the JCL parser does not understand it. In our example (TS009034119) the build client tells us t...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration