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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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Add Name-Value Pair (NVP) area to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger

We'd like the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area added to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger because with increased use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collect...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Add a folder under "Task History Detail" panel (E3279UI) for displaying the transaction tracking information. Fields are from performance data group DFHCICS. Please the attached file for details.

It will help identifying the tracking information of the task in terms of problem determination, performance monitoring and tuning.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU6.2 to TCP/IP

Please enable IPCONN to permit conversion of LU62 sessions to TCP/IP (for those cases where the following DTP Commands are used): EXEC CICS® ALLOCATE EXEC CICS CONNECT PROCESS EXEC CICS CONVERSE CONVID EXEC CICS CONVERSE SESSION EXEC CICS SEND SES...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

add INQUIRE SOAPFAULT to SPI

If a web services is invoking which throws a soap fault, the aoplication has to deal with the XML. It might be much easier, if the application will get the notification that there is a soap fault and gets the data with INQUIRE SOAPFAULT
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

JCL IF statements do not show the IF condition in the Job Flow graph like how the Program flow chart shows it

The job flowgraph analysis does not show the exact conditions (via IF statements) based on which the specific steps are executed.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

ADDI: Communication between AD Client and MSQL DB should be done exclusively via AD Services

For the analysis of artifacts and the display of results in the AD client, the communication runs via the AD services on a Windows server and not directly to the MS SQL server. From a security point of view, the analyzed data must not be accessed ...
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Allow wildcards in SuperC batch member selection

Using SuperC Search-For from the ISPF panels allows members to be selected using '*' and '%' wildcards, i.e. like '*SP3%' as a membername. It would be very useful if the same format could be used in SELECT statements in the JCL SYSIN dataset
over 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 4 Future consideration

Provide support for PANDAS

Can support be provided for the PANDAS package please? This is one of the most common and essential packages used within the Python community and is required on the z/OS platform too. Any Site/Product that provides Jupyter Notebooks for python bas...
over 3 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 1 Future consideration

ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown

The ZDT Tools Deploy panel provides an option to "Stop emulated zOS", this does a hard stop of the emulator, not proving a graceful systematic shutdown of zOS and jes purge. If this option is selected, Tools must shutdown zOS in a organized manner.
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

New PyCSM and pyds8k packages to support IBM disk migrations

IBM Disk management team is making use of Python for disk migrations and we need additional Python packages installed to downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net We were asked by IBM to get the following for the disk management tools: PyCSM https://pypi.org/...
9 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration