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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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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...
8 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
8 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Improve the interface between zWS and CDP so that CDP continues to work with zWS if the USS filesystem is moved or restarted on a different LPAR (AUTOMOVE)

There are 3 inter-related requests here all for CDP/zWS interface (parameter CDP(YES): (1) a command to force a SWITCH of the CDP logs (similar to what is available for the SWITCHMLOG) (2) a command to force the CDP interface to start up again (wi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add a new feature to start DRF SAS according to SORTPARM(NUM(nnn)) even if STACK was specified.

The customer ran into a problem where thousands of output image copies were taken after a recovery during DR exercise because STACK keyword was not specified (STACK causes all the DBs in that recovery profile to be pointed to one IDRF0001 job and ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 2 Future consideration

Cross Dependency: "Real Time" status in shadow Job

If we use automatic recovery statements (e.g. to insert a new application as new predecessor) the workstation status of shadow jobs don't change from E to W. IWS changes the status of the shadow job after the recovery action is completed (the new ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CPSM WUI - TCP/IP service cipher name

Recently we've started to keep SSL ciphers in a xml file rather than coding at the tcpip service definition. The problem is, we can not see the cipher name,being used by tcpip service, via cpsm wui. When we click the ssl cipher suit codes at the w...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Build Selection Batch Command Line

The IBM Application Discovery Build Client allows us to Build a selection of entities.However, we can't do this with a batch command line.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Increase ease of use for updating SYSLIB in remote property group definitions

Currently the SYSLIB definition in property groups is presented as a single field containing several blank-separated data set names.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Implement HACP EE Support for Secure FTP (like HOD)

Please implement Secure FTP in HACP EE similar to HOD Secure FTP functionality.
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

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.
8 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

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