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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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PCOMM FTP Client support for implict TLS connection and client certificate authentication

Certificate-based authentication can eliminate several initial steps in a traditional Userid/Password authentication process. Digital certificate-based authentication is phishing-resistant, user-friendly and convenient compared to passwords. Elimi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Provide ability to Include/Exclude/OMIT zOS Conn LIST report.

CICS PA zOS Connect LIST report helps to format individual records as such. Currently it reports 40+ Fields. Can we be provided with option to OMIT fields that we dont want in the report. Can we be provided with Filter option to INCLUDE / EXCLUE r...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Allow input fields to always be high lighted

Currently PCOMM doesn't provide explicit options to always have user input fields high lighted. When migrating from other TN3270 packages (notably Reflections and Host Explorer) the user base is accustomed to this feature and it is a top request f...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Rational Business Developer dependency analyze Tool

Client has large EGL project need to analyze its dependency, the need RBD to add a tool to read RBD temp file like *dg.
about 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Planned for future release

User wants to access directly to SPL files without generating PDFs (not always)

PDF files require a lot of storage space that could be saved this way
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

TADZ Reports - New column showing product version and release based on the last GKB loaded

Can the reports be updated with adding an extra column to show the latest version and release of products registered in the lastest GKB loaded. By adding this column would add value because analyst can review and assess how far off products are fr...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Planned for future release

ETL utility and JCL script to automate the DB2 data Loading process into IZTA

This will help the customer to load the DB2-UNLOADED data directly into shared dataspaces (VTS-TSR).
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Planned for future release

Ability to group CICS regions together and start IA Collection process `by group`.

From a recent workshop for CICS IA with PNC · Customer has hundreds of CICS regions on their current environment and would like to group them into Dev, Prod and Application based regions. · Once grouped, customer would like to start CICS IA collec...
about 1 year ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Personal Communication iASP enable for file Transfer

Enable to access iASP when using File transfer(Send & Receive) option within Personal Communication. I also open TS006404568
about 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

DSECT should be documented in COBOL

Serviceability
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release