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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

Allow parallel installation of Python FMIDs

Currently, every new Python version ist delivered with ++DELETEs for the older Pyhton FMID. A complete migration of everything is sometimes very difficult, as some packages from IBM Pythin AI Toolkit or pypi may don't work together with the new ve...
25 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0 Under review

Parse/Read job step log even if it is in BINARY

When ZOAU read all job log STEPs it skips "CHECK1 SMPLOG 164" due to the fact that sometimes this step is in BINARY mode. The problem is that the Return Code detail message is within that step and it cannot be extracted. Looks like this step is a ...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM definitions.

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM delete/define definitions for IMS physical database datasets.
2 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

for zOS Connect similar to ZCEE-I-160 we need the PATCH option for OAS2. We don't have the ability to run API 3.0 and our users are trying to access vendors that use PATCH.

So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common in APIs, the PATCH HTTP method is more and more used. If only a set of values need to be updated, PATCH would be a more efficient...
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

A trace parameter for zSA with a set-table verbose level

This is Tom Wai from TLS (Hong Kong Software Premium Support team) taking care of local z/OS accounts. Recently I had a monthly cases review meeting with HSBC's management team. In their memories, from time to time we suggested different trace set...
3 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Under review

Capture File Modification Metadata on PDS Members when Performing DBB Builds

Currently, file metadata such as the created/modified date and time stamps are not being captured on PDS members when performing a DBB Build. The file modification history is blank after new or changed files have been delivered to z/OS. We would l...
13 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

Improved security

Any one that has implemented security doesn't run STC with uid 0. Omegamon should not try to open security holes for exploit
13 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide a z/OS ENQ query comand

There are many ways to query the system/dataset ENQs on z/OS but there is no way presently via ZOAU. Please provide an easy to use query capability for ZOAU that does not require operator authority to issue the d grs command. See both ISPF ISRDDN ...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

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