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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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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

Preserving the VSAM datasets available in IzTA's memory even after an IPL

Currently, there is a need to load the VSAM datasets to the IzTA in-memory table every time the system is IPL'd, and the workaround is to set up a quasi-automated process to load the same. Customers would be interested to have those processes happ...
9 months ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Future consideration

Infoprint using IEBGENER and Resolve symbols &DAY as DYYMMDD on Subject and Email attachment names

Hi Team, We have specific requirement on Infoprint using IEBGENER and Resolve symbols &DAY as DYYMMDD on Subject and Email attachment names. Can you please consider on this IDEA. Regards, Sathya
9 months ago in Printsw / Infoprint Server and Transforms 2 Functionality already exists

Print Report and then have option to mention email id and PDF or TEXT and send email

Hi Team, Currently already generated report print option has to mention DEST, but we are looking for option to mention email id and PDF or TEXT and send email which will help customers receiveing email instead of sending to DEST Printer. Pleaes co...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

ADDI Impact analysis report not scrollable

Impact analysis report is not scrollable - Customer has to click on arrows to see the report..
9 months 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

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
9 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 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

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

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