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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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Provide Detailed Instructions on Cloning an SMU Server from a Container to a new Container/Server for High Availability

IBM currently provides an option to install/manage/run SMU using a Red Hat (Podman)/Linux (Docker) container. It would be very useful for clients to have detailed instructions on how to make a copy of an existing SMU container to create a high ava...
9 days ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
8 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Submitted

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

post SMPE instructions for ADCD products

Hi I would like to know post-SMPE instructions for all the ADCD products so I can do the maintenance of products I'm entitled to via shop z. Because I don't want to provision a new instance with a new level of ADCD and migrate my data. Regards Vitek
2 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

cohost manualy generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC

Hi we would like to reduce the number of licensing servers to reduce maintenance overhead and complexity of our environment. Currently, zdnt license server does not allow cohosting manually generated licenses and licenses generated by LKC. When we...
2 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Enhance PCOMM to properly allow for usage of TLS 1.3 in TN3270 sessions

usage of TLS 1.3 will allow for current and future users to utilize this newer more secure level of TLS. At present, based on TLS 1.3 (Transport Layer Security) Support in IBM Personal Communications (PCOMM), you are saying that PCOMM is dependent...
2 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 0 Submitted

Additional functionality to saveOutput methods in JobExec class in DBB Toolkit API to ignore DD-name/header

Hello, Currently in the different saveOutput methods in the JobExec class that uses the ddName parameter to save the output of a specific DD in an executed job the DD-name/header is included in the file that is saved as the initial line. This unfo...
8 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Submitted

Support for PL/I

Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
about 2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

z/OS Connect does not currently have a way to retrieve a list of the API requesters deployed in a server configured with OpenAPI3.

Currently, z/OS Connect EE provides functionality to list APIs, but it lacks a feature for listing API Requesters deployed on a z/OS Connect EE Server configured with OpenAPI 3. In contrast, with OpenAPI 2, API Requesters can be listed by sending ...
9 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

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