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145 VOTE

Allow script execution from remote emulator in IDZ

Most 3270 emulators allow the execution of scripts and in our case we use it a lot for the execution of automatic tests, it also allows us to enter certain commands to extend the session in HOST, so we really miss having this option that we consid...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 9 Submitted

Creating a specific communications about HIPER and PE in in IBM Communications (Informational / Software) received from IBM My Notifications Portal

We receive communications from IBM My Notifications Portal. Adding filter about a specific product (IMS for our case) is possible. But there is no way to add a filter about the classification of the APARS . Is it possible to create a specific comm...
1 day ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Needs more information

Adding the classification of APAR(PE/HIPER) in IBM Communications (Informational / Software) received from IBM My Notifications Portal

When we receive IBM notifications mails (when subscribed to IBM My Notifications) the APARs titles don't contain the classifications of the APAR (HIPER/PE). In order to make it easier for us to identify the urgent/important APARs quickly and on ti...
1 day ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review
177 VOTE

Develop the functionality in File Manager to choose the encoding with a file should be downloaded to a PC through its export to desktop function

BBVA is a very important global bank with operations in Spain, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, etc. BBVA is the largest bank in Mexico, employing over one thousand of mainframe developers. These developers use IBM Developer for z for th...
3 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 8 Future consideration

Support External JWTs in CICS

Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
5 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted
137 VOTE

Configuration file for P2 installations

I propose the inclusion of a configuration file for P2 installations which allows, for example: adding a z/OS connection by default which would allow me to distribute the tool to developers as an installation by Installation Manager allows. Basica...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Under review

Cobol syntactic analyzer to handle multiple ENTRY statements

Any ENTRY statement in a Cobol program is detected by the syntactic analyzer as unreacheable code when previous code contains a GOBACK. However, a program with an entry doesn't necessarily begin from the PROCEDURE DIVISION. Any ENTRY can be used a...
7 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Add support for signal shutdown in TPF under VM

Enable the system to receive interrupts from the service processor Set a bit on in Control Reg 0 Issue a SERVC instruction defining a small area in memory for the service processor to communicate to TPF Act on the receipt of the Ext 2401 interrupt...
about 3 hours ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Submitted

Ability to save the project analysis in ADDI and continue working on it at any time

After doing some analysis like generating the graph or report. when developer close and reopen the ADDI/IDZ application, all the research was done has disappeared, The solution would be to download the graph and report externally to the local driv...
about 23 hours ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

ZOAU does not support PDSE datasets on EAV volumes (because they are a format 8/9/3 pair in the VTOC and ZOAU only supports 1 and 8). It would be important to format support for the 8/9/3 VTOC pair. So, request to add this new format support in ZOAU. Thanks

We have PDSE ds allocated in EAV volumes, so when we use member_archive in Wazi Deploy we get the following error in the copy step using ZOAU copy command dcp. Unexpected dscb3 format encountered with ds3keyid of 0x9010180" error" can happen for d...
1 day ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

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