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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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VMRELOCATE off from GDPS menu

We would like to be able to set vmrelocate off for guests running under z/VM from GDPS menu
over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

Optional Source IP Address for TESTPORT

Customers like Lockheed Martin/CMS use TESTPORT and like it but need to specify an optional sourve VIPA or source IP address in order for TESTPORT to reach the target socket/port. Right now TESTPORT takes the main IP address of the associated stac...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Need HW crypto card encryption support from node.js

While working with State Farm, their z15 systems are all come with HW crypto card enabled. They require the encryption to go through and use HW crypto card when deploying to production system. Our product WMLz (Watson Machine Learning for z/OS) is...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 4 Future consideration

Remote engine - Shadow job status

With reference to PMR n.° 40852 311 758 - Problem on shadow job status - we would like ask to improve how shadow job worksin order to avoid the behaviur described in the PMR. Shadow job doesn't reflect faithfully the status of its Remote.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Support specific characters regarding MAILOPTS

Today IzWS require a x'7C' definition in MAILOPTS and in the EMAILJCL member as "AT" sign to support a mail could be send through SMTP. Few customers might have a need to use an other value / character due to specific national restrictions or requ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Tooling required to keep online and offline image unique file system files in sync and cleanup obsolete/superseded content

The list of files loaded online on TPF in /sys/tpf_pbfiles the list of files included in an OLD or TLD deck using the current content of tpf.loadfile can be different. We need a way to be able to determine what those differences are, and a way to ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect to set message priority

Please enhance the MQ Service Provider for z/OS Connect and the z/OS Connect API Toolket to set the message priority for MQ Services.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Support for plain text data in z/OS Connect EE

There are lots of software products, which are able to send HTTP request but can't process JSON responses. Currently z/OS Connect EE is limited to JSON responses, which means those software products can't invoke mainframe applications through z/OS...
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

IDz Debugger IMS Isolation to prevent 'DIS TRAN *' command

Debugger IMS Transation Isolation facility in ISPF pannel currently permits issuing both an IMS display command 'DIS TRAN *' to display all the existing trasactions, or issue 'DIS TRAN pattern*' with a filtering pattern, or even with the full tran...
almost 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve SUBMIT trace and allow a tracker to have multiple submittors (instead of deploying multiple submit-only trackers

In this case through a combination of JCL DEBUG and SUBMIT traces it was seen that a tracker was overloaded (needed to submit over 7000 jobs in a 10-minute period and was only able to submit around 6300 jobs. It would have been easier to see if a ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration