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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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Make zAPM Containers sysplex compliant

Please allow for CICS regions on 1 LPAR to connect to containers on another LPAR if the container on the same LPAR should become unavailable/experience issues or are unable to connect to the DG. It would seem dataspaces are used currently which is...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Program Analyzer should install custom rules in writeable USS folder and not in usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr

Currently, the Program Analyzer is installed in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg. This location is read-only, so we cannot save our own rules in /usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr. The usr/lpp/IBM/akg/cr folder should be moved to a writable location (perhaps /var/...). As a wor...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Not under consideration

Add Menu Manager action for editor opened with JES Submitted JCL

Please add a Menu Manager context for the JCL Editor when the JES Show JCL option is used.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Allow advanced filtering of Show In > Data Elements information

Filtering on name is very limited. More advanced filtering on Name, Top-level-Item, Declared In and Item Type should be provided. The Data Elements view could be a powerful feature if more advanced filter is provided. Most of our developers only u...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

CICS Named Counter API Commands need security

CICS has a series of API commands to utilise Named Counters: DEFINE (D)COUNTER DELETE (D)COUNTER GET (D)COUNTER QUERY (D)COUNTER REWIND (D)COUNTER UPDATE (D)COUNTER Looking in the documentation: Access to named counter pools - IBM Documentation in...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

TNEW threshold applies to individual CICS transaction.

We are trying to capture docs for a long running task that can run anytime in a CICS region but TNEW function does not work because of the limitation of the threshold apply to the entired CICS started task.
over 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Search function for program literals to add to Monitor

Hello IBM, we like to have a functionality that was found in Xpediter: When you want to add a variable/literal to the Monitors view "Monitor Expression" and you're not 100% sure how it's call, you should have the option to search for the name of t...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

New feature to stop/cancel ongoing transfers without restarting CUZCLOUD

In current version of CTC we do not have feature to stop/cancel the ongoing Active task. We would be happy if you can implement the suggested feature.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Future consideration

License activation without user interaction

We are defining the ADDI installation procedure as an automated task, so it can be executed as automatically by a pipeline to provision a new server. The license activation requires a human interaction and can therefore not be automated
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Generate Swagger file in YAML format

For outbound services, zos connect supports swagger in both JSON and YAML format. Is it possible as well for Inbound Services we can make some configuration to state if the generated Swagger should be in JSON or YAML format.
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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