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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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Support dynamic STEPLIB for CSLULXSB (Rexx/SPOC) interface

Would promote greater flexibility by avoiding the need to allocate the IMS RESLIB before ISPF initialization.
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 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

Key management support for Saleforce Cloud

US Bank interested in possibility of integrating UKO for z/OS with their Salesforce cloud environment for external key management.
10 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enable recording for Cobol VS II

We are in a process to migrate from Cobol II to Enterprise Cobol and zVTP would be a great resource to help us test but we can't record using Cobol II, we've got an abend S0C4 during the recording.
over 1 year ago in Z Virtual Test Platform 0 Future consideration

Possibility to save in a file the list of all dependencies by running it in batch or save the list under ISPF.

We have the need to export the list of all dependencies of an application in a file. Currently this list is only available under ISPF (Option 9 ALL DEPS of SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION) We'd like to have a WAPPL comman...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Adding filtering capabilities to the TDI datasets

In an SMU widget you can choose different Omegamon datasets, but there is a difference between the TDI datasets and the original datasets. If you choose the TDI datasets there are no filter options (filter on 'Managed System Name' and no 'Prelimin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Policy based routing for API Requesters

We would like the ability to use policy based routing to direct API Requesters to specific API Connect endpoints. I believe this would involve adding a new valid property for use for API Requesters. For example: EndpointConnectionRefThe ID of the ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Ability for zcentric agents to flow through a gateway to the Z Controller

This will allow client connections to the zController with zcentric to directly connect through a NAT IP (gateway) and not via a DDM. This will simplify set up and connections with the zcentric agent.
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

PARSE support for CSV files

Some of our systems are required to ingest CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files from other platforms. Presently we use SORT or other utility to convert the file to fixed format before passing it to COBOL for processing. In a few cases the COBOL pr...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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