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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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IVPs should be provided with the product

Like in Fault Analyzer, which is offered with transaction CFA that includes IVPs to check its functionality, zOS Connect should also include a provided functional set to enable basic tests - a ping service, the option to expose and publish it, the...
17 days ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

STDERR DD doesn't have timestamps

As you can see error messages in STDERR DD don't have date and time. This is not good. It would be very useful to have them. LBGT OUTPUT DISPLAY WLDWINEU STC34821 DSID 102 LINE 0 COLS 02- 133COMMAND INPUT ===> SCROLL ===> CSR****************...
22 days ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Add fields to the CPSM CICSRGN Resource Table so as to be able to compute the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval ratio

This would make it easier to monitor the QR TCB Dispatch / Interval Ratio. As it is right now, MSGUSR for each CICS region has to be scanned for the DFHDS0102 message. The items needed to calculate this value, or the value itself, could be put int...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Functionality already exists

Add JSONIGNORE attribute similar to XMLIGNORE

The JSONIGNORE attribute would indicate that an element should be ignored by the JSON functions. If the attribute is specified on a substructure, all of the elements of the structure will be ignored. We also need the JSONOMIT attribute to be exten...
about 1 month ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Implement mfa support in rseapi without Zowe API Mediation Layer dependency.

Rseapi requires today for zMFA support integration with additional service: Zowe API Mediation Layer. For that we should install additionally zowe product which seems unnecessary for that only reason. RACF today has both passticket and JWT support...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 1 Functionality already exists

Enable session timeout longer than 999 seconds for e3270 UI

It would be beneficial to set a session timeout longer than 999 seconds (such as 30 minutes) to satisfy audit requirements on our site.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Don't send the empty elements of an array part of Responses

In an API with an array of 20 elements in Responses, if we got only 5 elements with values we still got 20 elements of which 15 are empty. This 15 empty elements are useless. It would be great to have a way to avoid it by giving, for exemple, a va...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Using IBM Z Monitoring Configuration Manager parameter KDE_LOOPBACK_POOL within RTEDEF should be applied in members KppENV.

Hello We're using Configuration Manager to create the runtime data sets for Omegamon products, we need to fix the ports for those products as we're not allowed to work with dynamic ports. We observe that the values assigned to the parameter KDE_LO...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

zSecure - RVARYPW algorithm report

With the newly introduced RACF APAR OA65905 supports for the RVARYPW the KDFAES algorithm. However, it is not visible in zSecure SETROPTS panel which algorithm is in use. It only reports if a password is used or not whereas the 'regular' password ...
over 1 year ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 3 Functionality already exists

Add MacOS support for locally installed client

We need MacOS support for the HoD locally installed client as part of our mainframe community work with MacOS.
9 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Functionality already exists

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