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Please provider an Openshift version of the container. Docker / Podman are not permitted technology at the Bank.

Please provider an Openshift version of the container. Docker / Podman are not permitted technology at the Bank. This is the only way we will be able to run ADDI containerized.
5 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Future consideration

Create tape datasets from Python API to ZOAU

In zOS there are two types of hardware datasets, the datasets that exist on Direct Access Devices (DISKs) and datasets that exist on TAPES. Data in datasets can be too large to be housed on DISKs, so the datasets are put on Tapes so that they don'...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Increase the number of available Application Symbols (SUBSSYMBOLn/SUBPSYMBOLn), similar to System Automation Symbols (AOCCLONEx)

Both simple and complex environments can be managed more easily through symbol substitution. With additional Application Symbols, a more tailored approach to automation management can be achieved, reducing administration efforts through reusable d...
25 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Submitted

ETT Trigger Feature

A lot of different companies I´ve talked with have problems with excessive ETT Triggering where there are so many triggers you go over the length of your current plan. I think it would be very appreciated to have some new kind of ETT triggering fe...
22 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Host code-page 838Thai with Windows regional format as English

Users will get more benefit if PCOMM can support 838Thai with Windows regional format as English because users will not manually switch regional format between English and Thai when they use Microsoft Excel.
15 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 0 Submitted

All SDF messages from all domains visible in 1 SMU dashboard

Because the SMU source code in specified that the “Domain Name” or “Resource ID” is required, it is not possible to create a dashboard in which all SDF messages from all systems are visible. In our “traditional” environment, we now have our “own” ...
about 1 month ago in IBM Service Management Unite 1 Submitted

LPEX / Eclipse : Enable context-sensitive help for C/C++ and assembler

The functionality is already present for Cobol and PL/I - it seems logical to also have it for C/C++ and assembler (at least for the IBM macros, but would certainly be cool for individual instructions too). In a nutshell, place cursor on "printf",...
6 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Provide functional JZOS jars in a Maven repository

IBM has made non-functional versions of the JZOS jars available in the Maven Central repository to allow compilation using Maven. Some JZOS functions are dependent on z/OS, however others e.g. data conversion are not. Using non functional jars mak...
6 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Submitted

JZOS Maven jars should throw exception for disabled functionality

IBM has made JZOS jars available on Maven Central for development and compilation. The functionality has been disabled in the Maven Central jars. Some or all disabled functions currently return invalid values e.g. null. If you inadvertently use th...
6 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Submitted

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