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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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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...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Under review

Navigation to a top menu from a command line

impossible to navigate to the main menu from a line command neither by typing the manu's name nor by S_Menu's name
about 6 hours ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

Improve quality of service by keeping client bound messages in the buffer until they are delivered

Right now client bound messages are dropped on the floor when a heartbeat is lost and the client reconnects. This causes serious issues for us, particularly in prod during heavy automation critical message traffic. We just had 2 prod job failures ...
3 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 0 Under review

shared classes to support .jrt and nested jars

I am using zowe - and it takes a long time to start. (as well as z/osmf) I can see from the shared classes output and the output of -verbose:classes that most files are not found in the shared classes cache. These classes come from nested jars... ...
29 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Under review

Build client virtual folder sort order correction(6.1.3)

After adding files from mainframe, the virtual folder files are sorted based on the member name of different PDSEs but it's not based on the sorted order of both PDSE and members together. Good to have them sorted based on both so it would be easy...
10 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

DWC Widget for EQQ* Messages

Currently, we use DWC dashboards for Operations staff to monitor multiple controller error queues and agent workstations for offline status. We handle late alerts by capturing the EQQE027I messages, which SA then picks up and sends to another cons...
15 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

ADDI should be able to identify 3rd party software programs and identify them as UTILIY instead of Load Module. RAA had the capability to identify 3rd party mainframe tools like Easytrieve, Infogix, etc.

This would make it clear to someone doing analysis that no source code would exist for this progam.
17 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Wazi Analyze 0 Under review

Add option to specify ID for owner of new and existing zCDP policy files

This would help address an audit requirement, as it is against policy for personal IDs to own files in Production environment. Currently, the file owner of the zCDP policy files is the ID of the individual who created the zCDP policy.
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

Extension of the collection formula limit for ITM Distributed and ITMz

We are unable to create a history collection with a filter for the attribute group KS3_DASD_SUMM, for example. The plain collection for KS3_DASD_SUMM, with no filters added, is already 952 characters long, due to so many columns in it. This leaves...
28 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Under review

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