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Bypass security on ICF catalog

Running inquisitor job with CATALOG parameter fails when there is no read access to ICF catalog. Our request is to "bypass" this security issue in same way as it is done when accessing any dataset. As inquisitor is running APF, it should be possib...
10 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

Support jUnit as output format in zCodeScan

Add support for jUnit/xml as an output format from zCodeScan besides sonar cube/json This would make transitioning from IDz Code review easier for us that is running a build orchestrator (i.e. Team City) that have native support to present testres...
23 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 0 Submitted

In the iZSAM GUI under the ASSETS tab using the "Product Use By Month" report screen, add an option called "Include Uninstalled/Deleted Software" with a check box. If that check box is checked, exclude the AND PI.UNINSTALL_DATE IS NULL AND P.FOBSERVEDELETED IS NULL AND S.FOBSERVEDELETED IS NULL from the where clause so that deleted history will be included in the resulting report.

This would be useful to allow the customer to see history of product usage following the deletion of the product loadlibs followed by an IQ Scan and IQ Import. Without this, the customer has to build and execute special SQL without these where cla...
3 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

New REST API endpoint for searching by load module

Would is be possible to add a REST endpoint to query repository by Load module? Similar to "Search modules" dialog in Web interface http://rsp3.rocketsoftware.com:9000/disc/search_modules?repository=REPHLQ1&outfmt=web&outlim=3&module=K...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Under review

Allow scan of only migrated datasets

For audit purpose it sometimes become neccesary to scan also for migrated datasets. There is an option available to do so when using CATALOG keyword. But using CATALOG keyword only scans on datasets which are connected via standard catalog search ...
2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

Identification of IZSAM instance (lpar name, DB2 subsys) in banner in online interface

When working with more IZSAM installations in parallel it becomes difficult to distinguish between different open sessions. So it would be very helpful when in banner of each GUI window there would be shown e.g. lparname and db2 subsystem connecte...
2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Under review

IDZ Sofware Analyzer - Client Batch Mode - Link with z/OS Copybooks

When we work with IDZ in an interactive mode (eclipse UI), we have added property groups for our projects, in order to link cobol copybooks strored on z/OS PDS (especially technical copybooks we don't need in the Workspace : SQL Messages, MQ, ...)...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Store outputs of the software analyzer in individual files

At the moment the output of all runs is stored in a single file. In the future, we would like the run of every programm anaylized stored in an individual file (XML, JUnit, ...).
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Improve and expand batch Software Analyzer functionality in IDz (z/os Explorer Extension)

Improve generated reports and outputs from IDz's batch Software Analyzer.Currently, the report that is generated from a batch run is 0 bytes and contains no details.The other files are included in the zip but are xml and hard to analyze.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

izsam should integrate with servicenow

izsam has good understanding of the installed products on z system. This is good information for the servicenow cmdb.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration