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Modify DBB Scanner to Recognize Easytrieve Includes

During the build, the sources are scanned to detect the dependencies between files. The scanner running right now is able to scan Easytrieve files but it doesn't detect any dependencies so IBM has to modify this scanner.
almost 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

64-bit capability for OSAM buffer pools

Wells Fargo IMS subsystems are reaching memory capacity. The largest user causing this constraint is OSAM buffer pools. Moving these buffer pools to 64-bit would relieve the constraint.
5 months ago in IMS Database Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

LDAP authentication on HOD Licence Manager

Add the possibility to configure Host On Demand Licence Manager to use LDAP as authentication method. Adding options of Administrator and Monitor roles based on LDAP groups.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

IBM z Omegamon for Storage missing capabilities

Poste Italiane, the official Postal Office in Italy, but also a Bank, an Insurance company, and a Telephone provider, is missing the following capabilities for the mentioned software in the subject: Information on catalogs is missing: several exte...
5 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

IBM z Omegamon for CICS missing capabilities

Poste Italian, an Italian Bank postal office, but also a bank, telephone provider and insurance company, was complaining about the following bullets below: In the KCPTASHP view, the “Programs” section includes a list of the routines called by each...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 1 Not under consideration

include the Copybooks which are expanded inside the cobol program(-copy) for analysis

We have added all the copybooks under cobol include in build client, but Copybooks which are expanded already inside the cobol program(as dash-copy) are not processed . and we are unable to analyze the variables because of this, since explore proj...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

to add the utilities ICETOOL

datasets used in PROCS that aren't displayed, and they aren't picked because the specific utilities are not being handled in ADDI.
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Speedup the release of license after stopping a ZD&T instance

zD&T License server release license too slow when an instance is stopped.Shutdown takes approx,. 1 min, 20 secs. After the shutdown it takes more than 6 minutes before the license are released. In total almost 8 minutes.This could lead to that...
10 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Planned for future release

z/OS Connect to support the token being returned from the authorization server in a custom field in an OAuth 2.0 flow

We are using the z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support to obtain an access token from our EUA Authorization server. This retrieves the access token from the “access_token” field of the JSON response, as per the OAuth 2.0 specification. In the response th...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange for z/OS Connect

We would like to have the functionality of Token Exchange in OAuth 2.0 (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8693) directly enabled from z/OS Connect EE. This would enable us to use the 'extension' OAuth Grant Type to execute new token requests usin...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration