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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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Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide support for PUT and GET statement

I am opening this RFE on behalf of the customer. They are requested that zUnit provide support for PUT and GET statement In essence, lift the limitation documented at this link https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQ2R2_14.2.0/com.ibm.e...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Automation to import workspace settings between versions of IDz

Thru this RFE, request IBM team to consider providing an option that can help to migrate settings from past work space to the new work space. In the current world, we recommend develops to either 1) make a copy of their existing work space and use...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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

Intranet Server so where non-IBM employees can access our Documentation offline.

Currently, IBM documentation can only be accessed and downloaded internally. There is no intranet server for customers to download/configure and customers cannot access the documentation externally. The current process is to download the IBM deskt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request for SETTIMER Command

Actor: Systems Programmer Our team uses System Automation for z/OS for various things. One of which is utilizing Policy timers to perform some unit of work at a time-based interval. Currently operating in Netview to interact with policy timers (no...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Support for mixed type JSON arrays

While using the webservice assistant DFHJS2LS, we are receiving errors when processing json schemas that have arrays using the items tag as an array e.g. “items”: […..] . This json schema is a valid schema and used to describe a Tuple; a type of a...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration