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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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Altering datasets with IBM ZOAU

Today, Python Z Open Automation Utilities provide a lot of functionality for dataset tasks like create, delete, copy, rename and so on.Actually one important use case is to alter a dataset’s management class. On z/OS this can easily be done by i.e...
almost 3 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

Display expiration date for datasets

Hi, we are missing a way to display the expiration date. Since we often add an expiration date to files, it would be nice to display this in the IDz as well. Please display this attribute in at least one of these views - Properties - Remote System...
7 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Planned for future release

zOS Connect tracking token in x'56FA' records

We are seeing a large increase in traffic to our backend IMS systems using z/OS Connect and API. We offload z/OS Connect SMF records to splunk along with IMS x'56FA' records. z/OS Connect provides a tracking token which currently IMS stores in x'0...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Make Search Results Persistent

Enhancement to the IDz Remote z/OS Search View to make search results available between IDz sessions. Please add the ability to save the actual Remote z/OS File search results so the results are available between IDz sessions. There is already an ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add PROCs to the Job Call Flow

It would be nice if the PROCs that are called by Jobs were reflected in the Job Call Flow
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

GDPS Global Mirror volume dynamic expansion

Provide capability from GDPS to dynamically expand a volume in a GDPS session and modify all the relationships from a single step.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 3 Not under consideration

Z Unit supporting POINTERs in Copybooks

Z Unit UI needs to be able to support POINTERs + LENGTHS for both Batch and Online. Ie, it should make the area addressed by the pointers available to the UI, both in and outbound from the programs being tested.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Requirement on IMS for JOINs across non-hierarchical related tables

In our IMS ODBM PoC development, we need the ability to JOIN IMS sibling segments.    We realize that this incurs performance overhead, but we still need to have this SQL JOIN option with child-to-child segments as well as DBD-to-DBD seg...
about 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 6 Not under consideration

New CFRECOVER script command at CF level

Our company has external and internal CFs in both MM Sites. During maintenance activities sometime there is a need to empty one of the CFs and populate to the other CFs based on the PREFLIST. In GDPS there is a script command that allows to empty ...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration