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Wazi Deploy

Make MEMBER_DELETE faster

MEMBER_COPY has been made incredibly fast since 3.0.7. However, MEMBER_DELETE still calls ZOAU methods that are excessively slow when the number or elements is very large or the system is busy, as each call to a ZOAU method creates multiple proces...
11 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Need support for migrated dataset when copying sequential datasets

Similar to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/IDZ-I-2312, support for migrated sequential datasets is required, for example during sequential_copy step. Currently it fails with an error: IGD17101I DATA SET MY.DATA.SEQ NOT DEFINED BECAUSE DUPLICATE NAME E...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Allow -o option to extract the tar archive with the running user as file owner

In wazideploy-generate the tar archive is currently extracted without using the -o option. This means that the file owner will be kept as it was when the package was build.When a different user is used for the deployment than the user that is runn...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Support merging of overlapping packages in wazideploy-generate

Wazideploy-generate accepts multiple packages and creates a merged package input file for the deployment execution. Today, it does not manage overlapping package well, e.q. Outline: * Pkg A containing a SAMP.JCL deletion * Pkg B containing a SAMP....
6 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Add an option to not overwrite archive datasets/members/files if they already exist

In cases were we have to rerun a deployment because of a step failure, the current archive blocks overwrite the previously taken backups with the component deployed in the previous run. I would like an option to make Wazi deploy not take backups i...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

I am not seeing the creation date, change date etc for wazi configuration components, anyone has any idea on how to fix it ?

If you see the first 3 members in above screenshot, we can see size, created, changed dates but members below it are deployed using wazi, those information missing in it.
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Introduce Wazi Deploy Config and Work directories

Wazi Deploy currently requires users to define their own strategy to maintain deployment configurations and work directories. I would like to see a simplified approach leveraging standard config and work directories: Maintain a configuration direc...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

Dynamic capability missing

The client complain that the Dynamic capability has been removed in the latest version, and would be happy if it would be implemented again.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

IBM DB2 QMF object update

* QMF Import *** this module is already developed by CIO App Mod*** Import QMF objects, query, procedure, form by using instruction files. QMFFORM: QMFFORM1: type: FORM member: QMFFORM1 name: QMF_FORM_1 QMFPROC: QMFPROC1: type: PROC m...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

update IBM Workload Scheduler applications

* IzWS (OPC) update *** this module is already developed by CIO *** Using BATL files, create/update OPC applications The git repo contains a BATL file for each OPC applications. The module inserts them into a JOB which is using WAPL com...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy Future consideration

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