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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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DBCS support for IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

IZDS V1.9 provides Japanese panel and report samples. Please add the same support for IZPCA V3.1.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

HACP EE (Host Access Client Package Extended Edition) needs to allow users to save their print jobs on the local PC.

HACP EE (Host Access Client Package Extended Edition) needs to allow users to save their print jobs on the local PC instead of users having to download their print jobs each time
8 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

HACP EE (Host Access Client Package Extended Edition) need to support local Windows Printer option like Host On-Demand (HOD)

RAI users need to be able to print in Windows Printer option
8 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Fix typos in SMPE install jobs

Hi, Almost all the SMPE jobs includedw with "IBM Open Enterprise Foundation 1.1.0" , contain text in cols 73 to 80. It'd be great if the text stayed within columns 1-72 so less manual editing was needed. Thanks, Travis
8 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Remove DB2ADM Requirement for Install & Support

DB2ADM access is too board for the shop. No one in the company has this access. The product should be able to be supported by application teams.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PPRC to XRC Load Address Synchronisation

For GDPS 3 site we require an automated mechanism within GDPS that synchronises any changes made from the PPRC site load address value to the the XRC load address value. These updates should be made in “real time” and only be made if a system name...
about 7 years ago in GDPS 11 Planned for future release

Need to filter on Jobs that are NP - NOP oper

There is a need to filter on operations that have been set to NP in panel ID EQQSOPFP. This would be much like filtering on operations set to MH (Manual Hold) NP - NOP (no operation). IWSz will set the status of the operation to complete when the ...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Provide IZTA support for DB2 Tables with name more than 8 Characters

IZTA only support DB2 tables with name up to 8 characters. Requesting IZTA to support tables with more than 8 characters. This will avoid the programming changes needed to map the IZTA tables in the application. 1-O-1 mapping with the same name in...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Planned for future release

Removal of Interactive Service for PCONMM Service

Windows reports on interactive services as an error in Windows system logs (see attached screenshot). https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/we-noticed-that-the-interactive-services-detection/fad0c42f-9d12-4cf6-a54a-2f9cf8731e4f. We...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

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