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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.
7 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add OpenSSL port for z/OS to Open Enterprise Foundation

We used to have through the IBM ported tools which are no longer available. Afterwards it was included in the IDz product, the FMID included a target path with Rocket tools. But since some PTFs ago OpenSSL is no longer included. Currently there is...
7 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Submitted

navigate to remote system data sets from local projects

It would be great to navigate to remote data sets from a local JCL. Nowadays with all the projects migrating to git, all our projects are local, and of course, all our JCLs are local. For that reason, we would need to navigate with ctrl click in a...
9 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

API to add annotations to components

Today, we can only add annotations to components using the AD Analyze client. Having an API for annotations will help enrich the data captured from source code with data that is maintained outside of the source code like Application name, supporti...
10 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Spark method to more easily use datasets

There is no simple way to feed dataset data into Spark through the shell which is a common method of invoking Spark. A function should be developed or a script made available that would be an official IBM method to use datasets with Spark.
10 days ago in IBM Z Platform for Apache Spark 0 Submitted

Build Map to include Source PDS apart from GIT Path

As a part of COBOL Build the PDS from where a COPYBOOK/DCLGEN dependency is resolved can be extracted and stored in Build Map along with ISPF stats attached to the member. This will help in detecting changes made to the dependency when the COBOL e...
13 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

Bug using 'Search' within Remote Systems view

When performing a Remote z/OS Search, where the 'Regular expression' check-box option is selected for the 'With name:' text field, subsequent searches use the initial 'With name:' value regardless of if it gets changed or not
13 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted

Certificate support for technical users

An enterprise business would rather like the opportunity to use certificates as a means of authentication for the technical users driving the Dynamic Workload Console.During installation two specific technical users are needed for DWC (One databas...
13 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
13 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

ingrchck needs to be updated to work with AUTWRK assignments

INGRCHCK halts the current shutdown commands of the task it was invoked for. The issue we are encountering is that if the task it is waiting for is running on the same autwrk tasks then the second task might not be able to shutdown as the commands...
14 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

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