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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...

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HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
20 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Under review

Provide soultion to automate setting of CICS options

We are looking to automate our mainframe testing. We are using the RSE API to enable automatic submission of jobs. With jobs adding hourglass options is trivial with the correct dd names, but with CICS we only have the BMS panels with HGCC and HGU...
8 days ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Under review

Possibility of logging in and logging out of a session, by calling an external API

In order to track users connecting and disconnecting in an applinx server farm, we want to update an external table by calling an API service. Instead of going through all the farm servers and checking if a session exists or not.
about 8 hours ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

We are asking for an enhancement to FM for IMS to have the capability of add/update a template, for an IMS managed ACB system running in an IMS data sharing environment, on any IMS within the data sharing environment.

The capability to add/update a template for an IMS managed ACB system, on a system where the IMS region isn't running, isn't in the current design of File Manager. We would like to see the enhancement of the product, to run/update a template on an...
about 10 hours ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

APPMON should work for Natural RPC Server when zIIP feature is activated

Application Monitoring (APPMON) doesn't show NATRPC requests when using NATETBZ(zIIP eligible). We tested, Brokerstub NATETB23(not zIIP eligible) instead of NATETBZ(zIIP eligible) and surprise APPMON shows NATRPC requests. For having a proper appl...
1 day ago in EntireX 0 Submitted

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP command in the INGLIST panel at a group level

To see and have confirmation for all the dependency tree for the STOP (INGREQ)command in the INGLIST panel at a group level as the SUSPEND ( INGSUSPD ) command does. It makes no sense to be able to see all the dependency tree for the SUSPEND comma...
1 day ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Create INODE version upgrade tool.

Currently for z/TPF TFS INODEs there is no available functionality to upgrade an INODE to the most current INODE version. In some systems, directories/files have been present since the initialization of the TPF TFS and are still at INODE version ‘...
2 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

Speed up process for provisioning of subsequent zOS images after have provisioned first one

When you use zODT in TAZ to provision the first zOS Image, you create for example the supplied stock zOS image, which is stored on a designated storage server. Then you provision the first one to for example a target Linux LPAR on z, this takes so...

Update the product to use SMF Exit IEFU86

The SMF Exits that this product uses (IEFU83 & IEFU84) were discontinued in our environment in favor of the updated SMF Exit IEFU86. We can't go back to the old Exits and would need the product to be updated to use the IEFU86 Exit for collecti...

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
13 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review