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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.
10 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Future consideration

Support COPY statement in a PSB file.

The PSB compiler in Application Discovery Build Client does not support a COPY statement in a PSB file. We request this be supported.
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Populate CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST with file close time for closed files.

CPSM Local Files view always shows all zeroes for "GMT file close time" and for "Local time file was closed" for closed files. This is because CICS statistics fields A17LCLST and A17GCLST are always zeroes when file statistics are extracted. They ...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

WAPL | Apply FILTER-Function to OBJECTs and SAVELISTs in LIST or SELECT Statements

The Filter function can be applied to the output of any List or Select statement. It will post-process the output and filter it only in the output DD-Statements when they are actually written (after processing the input WAPL Script) for the applie...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

GDPS should recover from secondary dynamic pathing problem

After problems on the secondary Metro Mirror devices due to maintenance on channel paths, following messages occurred: IOS210I PATH RECOVERY INITIATED FOR PATH xx on CU yyyy REAS PATHING ERROR and IOSHS0010I DYNAMIC PATHING IS NOT INITIALIZED FOR ...
9 months ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

Programmatically Update Monitor INTERVAL Start via AUTLCP1

There is no way currently to accurately set the timer on an ad hoc basis. Essentially the timer starts when the Interval value is updated or when a master switch occurs. In our use case, we have set up alerts for Partial Captures via GEO2976I, but...
about 2 months ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

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",...
11 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

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...
11 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enhance GDPS MGM 3site to support IPLs in Recovery region

In a MGM 3-site environment, major blocker with automating the region switch would be to IPL lpars in Recovery region. Since there is no Kp lpar in Recovery region, shutdown cannot be done from current Kr in recovery region. Only LOAD can be perfo...
3 months ago in GDPS 4 Future consideration

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