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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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Provide functional JZOS jars in a Maven repository

IBM has made non-functional versions of the JZOS jars available in the Maven Central repository to allow compilation using Maven. Some JZOS functions are dependent on z/OS, however others e.g. data conversion are not. Using non functional jars mak...
5 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 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

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

Discovery Products Use By Month - option to download all the usage data from all systems combined

One of the #1 things I use the product for is the Discovered Product Use by Moth. In here, after drilling down from LPAR>LIBRARY, I get the most granular data usage, going down to the jobname/userid/date/library, etc. 99% of the time, this is t...
5 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Functionality already exists

Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
5 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Add filter on Session Selection Menu and User Session Profile Menu

Request for filtering on the following Panels. For panel KLSADSP1 (User Session Profile) For panel KLSALST1 (Session Selection Menu) Request to: Modify panel so you can input filters by over typing the * on the different column titles. Session Dis...
11 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Transaction Level data to ODP

We would like to be able to stream transaction level detail from Omegamon to ELK via ODP. Equivalent functionality currently exists in the Omegamon for CICS product. We ideally would like "summary" data from each UOW including Processing time, arr...
11 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Reporting 0 Future 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

remote console access /zVM

remote console access to the end user in IaaS provider use case when there is any issue for them to connect to the VM in regular ways.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Implement support for CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz do not support CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax. For example: The Cobol editor will flag the function EYUVALUE(OK) with "Unable to resolve reference to EYUVALUE".
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

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