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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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load balancer at infrastructure layer

load balancer at infrastructure layer
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

Security Groups logging

to log more security group info to be consulted on the ICIC console or exported to a log concentrator
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Network node HA

Network node HA
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

intergrate with 3rd party backup&restore solution

by intergrate with 3rd party backup&restore solution to have unified backup&restore solution that fit into customer's IT architecture and support multi platforms.
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0

Endevor v18 function support in IDz 14.1.5

The new feature for IDz concerns the CARMA bridge interface to Endevor. Endevor release 18 allows for 256 character element names for USS support. The current CARMA interface only allows for 10 characters. The CARMA interface should support the ne...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Future consideration

zUnit : allow ENTRY statement in BMP programs

When creating/modifying a test case with the dynamic test runner (BZUPLAY), make then ENTRY-statement supported.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Reduce the about of CPU/MIPS used during zRTEMS startup

In environments with large numbers of nodes (8000+), when a z/OS RTEMS is started the RTEMS is measure to use 300-500 MIPS while establishing a HTEMS connection. During an IPL this is not an issue thanks to IPL BOOST, but when the zRTEMS needs res...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Repair Utility of ONDV file on CICS Transaction history

OMEGAMON CICS is able to store CICS Transaction History in file. For example,<ONLINE_VIEWER> DATA_STORE_TYPE=FILEOCMP DATA_STORE_FILE_NAME=OMEGA.V551.*.RKC2HIST It is working fine while it is running on Product Data center. But, when Disaste...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Kerberos sign on does not work in Personal Communications and Host on Demand

Currently, the current design of PCOMM and HOD doesn't support FQDN with alias host. This entry is opened fro Dev/L3 team to explore and check what API are available in C++ to support the alias hostname to resolve FQDN.
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Implement Code completion for DB2 objects such as tables and column names

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz v16.x does not provide code completion on DB2 objects. For example: When creating a DB2 select statement within an EXEC SQL code block, it would be nice if the editor was able to provide code completion for DB2 ob...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration