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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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Handle multiple lines of header data

For HATS screen combinations, give HATS the ability to capture multiple rows of header data, and keep those separated from the actual table data. Today HATS can only extract one row of header data. Many host screens with tabular data have two or m...
7 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Add last screen handling for Screen Combinations

Add the capability to screen combinations last screen processing such that data may not extracted on the last screen if the data that is displayed is repeated. This happens when the last screen of data is only recognized when a PF key is hit and t...
7 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

allow incoming connections from uss back to zOS

Uss outgoing connection back to zos fails when using host IP. See the example below, where 10.210.139.54 is IP address of VM that runs zdt. IBMUSER:/u/ibmuser: >curl -k https://10.210.139.54:10443/zosmf/ -v * Trying 10.210.139.54:10443... * TCP...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Enable the use of ALLOCATE/SEND/RECEIVE/CONVERSE type commands across an IPConn similar to LU61/2 connections.

We currently have applications in CICS that invoke transactions in IMS across LU61 and LU62 connections and receive the responses from those transactions. There is a push to convert these connections to IPConns. The LU61 command sequence is: ALLO...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Debug Manager to implement sysplex awareness

Currently Debug Manager is not sysplex aware, and it depends on zExplorer which also is not sysplex aware. But some ability for debug manager to resolve the IP address of the debug client, accross the sysplex is needed in order for debug manager t...
about 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Ability to launch ZVDT from CP4AIOPS (Infrastructure Automation) Portal

ZVDT currently provides RESTful APIS that can be used to launch it. Having this capability in the IA portal would provide a user friendly self-serve interface for the developers who will be using the CP4AIOPS porta. An ansible playbook would be re...
7 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Ability to associate roles in ZVDT with LDAP

This technology will be used by a large number of developers who currently have different roles and responsibilities in our organization. By leveraging LDAP roles to assign/deny access to ZVDT custom built images would make it easier to manage the...
7 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Ability to start and stop the z/OS instance from the ZVDT webui

Multiple developers will need to launch these images from a ui and this would be a great convenience to provide this feature
7 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Allow a CWS Web call to specify not to use MASSL

We have a CICS application calling z/OS Connect and wants to use Basic Auth over SSL. When z/OS Connect receives the requests, it asks CICS for a MASSL cert, and CICS obliges by sending the default cert on the ring, which in his case is not the au...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Create IIDR plugin for TDS/IZPCA

The z/OS Capture agent for IIDR (aka IBM CDC) has the ability to cut performance metrics as SMF records. However there is no 'off the shelf' facility to store these records for subsequent analysis. Both TDS and IZPCA have DB2 backend databases to ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration