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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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Validate zUnit playbackfile in DTR runtime

When pushing a zUnit testcase in a pipeline (and maybe other places) the playbackfile isn't validating with possible result a testcase is run forever (or until canceled). The functionality to validate the playback file is present in ZVTP and would...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 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

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

New tables KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_LP_T

Create KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T respectively similar to KPMZ_CPUMF1_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_T tables but including LP number in key
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Not under consideration

New table KPMZ_LPAR_LP_%

Create KPMZ_LPAR_LP_% similar to KPMZ_LPAR_% table but including LP number in key
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Norwegian codepage support (1142 and 277) for HACP EE

We need Norwegian codepage support (1142 and 277) in HACP EE. The major difference between Norwegian and Swedish is : Swedish codepage has ä, ö, Ä, Ö, where as Norwegian code page must have æ, ø, Æ, Ø. BTW. The Swedish codepages 1143 ad 278 are al...
9 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Stream WebSphere Liberty message.log to Logstash ELK

Recently application team intend to transfer WebSphere Liberty message.log and to display only particular info such as response time in MAGE. So, we config a stream for WebSphere Liberty message.log to be sent to Logstash ELK. From Data Streamer l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

AD - Program call graph for DL1 resource can be improved for certain ROLB scenario.

When IMS online program has the direct ROLB call without being accessing database segments, then AD call graph is shown as if program access multiple segments from the DBD. It looks to be little misleading from user aspect though the order of IMS-...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under 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