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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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z/OS Connect AT-TLS Aware/Controlling

z/OS Connect as AT-TLS Aware or Controlling. This allows z/OS Connect to use APIs of the IBM Communications Server. Features are not limited to but can include inquiring attributes of certificates passed during the SSL/TLS handshake.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Getting z/OS Connect (API) extracts working with ADDI in offline mode

To allow z/OS Connect (API) extracts working with ADDI in offline mode, this removes the need to connect ADDI to z/OS directly (online). Sites that do not allow direct connection between ADDI and z/OS cannot use ADDI for API analysis (z/OS Connect...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Create a facility to add jobs to the CP via call from a non-APF-authorized program

Need to be able to add a job to the current plan via a call from a running application program. This program may be IMS MPP, IMS BMP, CICS, etc. The interface CANNOT require APF authorization, as ordinary application programs should not be APF aut...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Graph generated using 'Program Control Flow' feature in ides to be exported as PDF

Using 'Program Control Flow' feature in iDz would be good to have a function that allows to export graph not only as svg or png, but also as PDF.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Add DB2 zHyperlink fields from SMF

Please add zHyperlink SMF fields to the proper DB2 / D_DB2 / A_DB2 component tables.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Allow applid and resource filtering against CICS PA HDBs

Currently the filtering capability against HDBs (both performance, stats and alerts) is in adequate. The first improvement can be made by allowing applid filtering against HDBs from ISPF option '6 - Statistics' . Then there are inconsistencies whe...
11 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

IBM Z Software Asset Management - Change to "Machine Inventory" report to display number of Crypto Cards.

IBM Z Software Asset Management - Change to "Machine Inventory" report to display number of Crypto Cards. Currently, the columns for "Crypto Online" and "Crypto Installed" are part of the report but they display 0 even if the actual value is not 0...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

SAVE AS in MFS editor will not save to remote system

SAVE AS - customer opens remote MFS file in a PDS. He does a File -> SAVE AS and gets a UI to choose the location of the save. None of the choices are the remote zOS connections. The only choices are local. However, performing the same action i...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Implement dynamic-capacity tables

Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Missing Data Capture Exit Support for IMS Open Database Access

Updates to IMS databases via Open database access do not trigger the database capture exit routines.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

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