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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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New ZDECB IO option to display database access details for ECBs on Find or File type SVC calls

Current ZDECB OLD only displays FARF5 address in the far right column and remains blank if the FIND or FILE SVC is for a 16 character FARF6 file address, this suggestion introduces that information in a new display format ZDECB IO together with re...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

EQQJOBS support for the "million jobs" SPE (SPE9308) is missing in 9.5 releaseOPo

There is no EQQJOBS selection for the use of the "million jobs" function (parameters MCPDATASPACE and CPDATASPACE) even though there are quite a bit of things that need to be customized - file definitions (EQQPCS01 job),the parameters for BATCH jo...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

IZSAM display truncation message at top of report

Currently the message indicating truncated results (more than xxx rows) is available at the bottom of the report. Many users are not seeing this message. Is it possible to display this message at the top of the report? Many user are doing a quick ...
7 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Functionality already exists

Add ability to post notices on web UI

It would be helpful if our support team could post notices on the web UI to inform users of important information. These would be informational messages and Not prevent use of the UI. Examples: Upcoming planned maintenance Failed to load usage dat...
7 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Use Flash Express as swap storage for VM Guests

The Linux (compute) LPAR can access to Flash Express Storage. Could be very useful in terms of performance to use this storage as provider for vm's swap disks.The swap disk is generally included into ICIC flavors, very interesting if it can be dep...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Needs more information

Add bootstrap loading of JWTs in cache and also enable pro-active refresh of bootstrapped JWTs

To decrease latency while procuring JWT tokens when a API request is made to z/OS Connect, its better to implement below logic & provide it as a configurable choice:* Create a list of OAUTH claim requests in a file that will be read by z/OS Co...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

To Dsiplay the "Correct Usage" of an Error when clicked on an Error after doing Softwat Analyzer in IDZ

Like in SonarQube, if you click on an error, it will display the non-compliance and compliance usage, based on this the developer will know how to correct/fix the error / issue in the code. So the expectation is the same in IDZ S/A as well.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Personalized session colors

Our collegaues are very positive regarding session coloring (active and current colors) which was delivered via PTF UJ07698 on v310. But it would be nice if people could decide for them selves whether or not to use colors, and customize which colo...
over 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Have EGL support SSO using Kerberos

We'd like to use EGL in a Single Sign On environment as follows:- User logs on to Windows (Active Directory)- User opens our EGL application in a browser (Firefox)- EGL application calls EGL program call service- EGL proxy (running on Linux/WAS) r...
over 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

Add the ability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

It would be really useful to us to be able to parse dynamic JSON arrays into ODO COBOL tables, with the JSON PARSE statement giving us the number of actual occurrences filled. Ideally by automatically update the ODO counter. It would also be very ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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