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Mass renaming of projects by command line

We need to have a command line for renaming projects in bulk instead of going through Build Configuration and renaming projects one by one.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Add filter in Build Configuration and Build Client

Need a filter addition in which we can directly search for the name of a project or a part.In Build Client at the small pop-up that opens to select a project and at the Build Configuration level in the list of projects.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

SSRANGE with Suboptions

SSRANGE can test tables with one dimension. It's not able to test each row and column of a multi-dim-table. It would be nice to have an option with can test multi-dimensional tables.For example:SSRANGE(STD) is the same like SSRANGE in presenceSSRA...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Retrieve multiple IMS segments in a single JDBC Call to reduce network trips.

getUniqueDBRecord JDBC call which is able to get a root and multiple children segment types. GetUniqueDBRecord with [String: segment, String: parent, String: ssa, integer: limit, …] getUniqueDBRecord([“ROOT”, “”, ssaRoot, 1, “KID1”, “ROOT”, “”, 1,...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 4 Not under consideration

Cluster level view of systems (for z/OS Connect)

For resiliency, best practice is to run multiple production z/OS Connect servers in a group and this must be managed as a single entity. To support this, we need an overall view of how this service (as a cluster) is performing, and the ability to ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Planned for future release

Adding IBM Deep search with ChatGPT Codex (or IBM Coding Services) by AI driven Coding training and inference ( can be Human Supervised)

Using IBM Deep search with Coding services will train the AI System for Optimized code and it will make the software development more efficient in coding, testing, tracking and debugging. Also may be add the AI driven DevOps Orchestration
over 1 year ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 11 Not under consideration

RDz - Import Software Analyzer results created during zOS batch run

Would like the ability to Import into the RDz client an xml file containing Software Analyzer results created during a zOS batch run.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Enhancement to Job Flow graph to include program, DD card and Dataset

Enhancement to Job Flow graph to include program, DD card and Dataset
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Enhance DFSDASP0 to not suppress messages when it issues the RACF AUTH call (when ODBASE=Y)

It was determined that we will rely on APSB security checking to control access for applications using the DVM product to access IMS data. This is working as expected. However, we are only getting the following in our system log:DFS2855A APSB SECU...
almost 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Future consideration

Variable number of containers in .sar

We have many programs allocating a variable number of containers (we identified programs where this occurs in output , but it could happen in input as well). All these containers are identical from structure point of view, their number and their n...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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