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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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z/OS Connect to offer API's with content secured with digital signatures

We want to have the ability in z/OS Connect to use signing of outbound API requests and signature verification of inbound API requests.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add customer internal software product ids via a user field

Software products are assigned product ids by the vendors. As part of our firm's internal processes, we assign resource ids to vendor software and would like to be able to add our internal software product ids via some sort of custom field somewhe...
11 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Not under consideration

Select CICS Task History for a range of regions simultaneously.

Seeing the behaviour of a transaction in all CICS regions where it executes as opposed to one region at a time would simplify certain monitoring and trouble-shooting tasks. Being able to specify additional contexts for CICS Task History Summary - ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support of Assembler Subprogram Calls

Currently when recording in zUnit, any subprogram calls to assembler programs are not recorded. For more complete testing of a program it would be beneficial for zUnit to also intercept and record assembler subprogram calls.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Alternative response message structures in z/OS Connect

Response messages from transactions have not always the same structure. It is common to use a field telling the invocating application which structure to use for the variable part of the message. Currently it is not possible to handle such kinds o...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Modify the iOS (iPad) virtual keyboard for HACP Extended Edition so that it does not cover the 3270 emulator session.

HACP Extended Edition is being evaluated a replacement solution to legacy handheld scanners used to connect to mainframe 3270 emulation sessions. In the current state, the iPad virtual keyboard covers portions of the ISPF 3270 session, making it d...
about 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

PL/I compiler for Linux (or Windows)

Besides z/OS and AIX the PL/I compiler was also available for Windows several years ago. This allowed us to use nearly the same source on z/OS and on Windows. We used the PL/I preprocessor to adapt the source for both systems. Instead of Windows a...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Support EQQMINOx to be invoked via LIBDEF (run zWS dialogs for different versions in parallel)

Unfortunately EQQMINOx is NOT supported to be invoked via LIBDEF because of the way that EQQMINOx is loaded -- there is an old DOC APAR concerning this which is STILL true even today-APAR= PK53014 SER= DD DOCLIBDEF FOR ISPLLIB DOES NOT WORK FOR LO...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

ZOS Connect EE : No CPU in SMF reccords

There no CPU consumption in SMF records , 120-11 or 123-1. This mandatory for us to get this value in statistic to be able to monitor easily the api requests.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Future consideration

zos_backup_restore ansible module looping over an inventory item with multiple entries + restore HLQ

Dear colleagues, First of all I would like to apologize in advance if this topic has been posted before, or if it will be created in an inappropriate section of the website interface. I am currently working on developing an MQ upgrade playbook and...
11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Not under consideration