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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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Sample SCLM RAM need to handle SCLM type extensions

Why it is useful? - The current sample SCLM RAM does not work with type extension and to make it work, a lot of customizations are required for the repository access manager in order to connect to SCLM from IDz. If this change is implemented, the ...
about 5 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 0 Submitted

Support multiple sysplex configuration files with zBuilder

We have a need to manage configurations files for multiple sysplexes. For example, dataset names stored with the Languages.yaml file differ from one sysplex to another.
about 8 hours ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

As an IMS systems programmer, I want the ability to make messages sent by IMS back to the client (e.g. DFS3688I) visible to operators and automation on z/OS.

Actually, to have an alerting when a transaction reaches his expire time we have, in the OTMA client descriptor (DFSYDTx), activated the parameter TODUMP with the option YES This solution is no longer efficient because when the issue arises our MP...
about 9 hours ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Restricting access to specific bot commands and command options for specific users and/or globally.

Introduce "read-only" access mode limited to getting system status. Blocking any possibility to perform any task (like stopping resources) which could change system state.
12 days ago in IBM Z ChatOps 2 Planned for future release

Support finding lower-case copybooks from USS directories

When compiling COBOL programs using the cob2 command in USS it is likely that the copybooks also reside in USS (because they are cloned from Git, for example). The current implementation only supports finding upper-case copybooks. It is, however, ...
7 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Builtin function for CMPSC & zEDC (data compression)

In CICS, we're currently heavily relying on compression of data before we write the data to VSAM datasets. This is currently done by a no longer supported ISV software. We think about how to migrate it to a better solution that provides better way...
14 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
3 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Under review

Parse/Read job step log even if it is in BINARY

When ZOAU read all job log STEPs it skips "CHECK1 SMPLOG 164" due to the fact that sometimes this step is in BINARY mode. The problem is that the Return Code detail message is within that step and it cannot be extracted. Looks like this step is a ...
15 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
3 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

IBM DB2 QMF object update

* QMF Import *** this module is already developed by CIO App Mod*** Import QMF objects, query, procedure, form by using instruction files. QMFFORM: QMFFORM1: type: FORM member: QMFFORM1 name: QMF_FORM_1 QMFPROC: QMFPROC1: type: PROC m...
4 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Submitted

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