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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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KFASD100/101 Messages for Agents - SDA Install started/completed as WTO

Self-Describing Agent Messages from OMEGAMON Agents (Netview, System Automation, Networks, Java, Catalog Management, HSM Audit, HSM Report, ...) are not written to SYSLOG with WTO but only to RKLVLOG. We need such KRAA002 Messages like KFASD100/10...
over 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Mitigate potential security exposure of current ETT functionality by identifying/authenticating user triggering the ETT job

At present, there is potential security exposure for ETT triggers set up as 'JOBNAME REPLACE' = N. Reason being, any user can inadvertently or otherwise submit a trigger job defined in Production ETT database thereby triggering ETT application eve...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Application Model API for IWSz

API available on the DWC installed on Z system with the URL hostname:portname/twsz/# does not contain Model API for Application when there are available with the Distributed IWS We'd like to have this model available, for IWSz as it is for the Dis...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Messages in SYSLOG for administration acts

Adding a message in the SYSLOG for each acts of administration on Service/API (Deploiement, stop, start)
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

IDz LPEX editor should ask if files need to be locked when the user start editing them.

When z/OS developer teams have the policy that files need to be locked when they start editing them. In the 'modern' editors this is asked as soon as people start modifying the source. That is the kind of behavior that we are looking for in the LP...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Integration of an automatic check after a build / make

The idea is the automatic generation of a check after a build or a make for the administrator of AD (in MS-DOS command and GUI AD Build Client).
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Add Docker support to DBB server

Sun Life is interested in running DBB Web Server (non-mainframe component) into Docker. It aligns with their overall enterprise strategy. It will be more efficient for Sun Life to have DBB running on Docker than maintain a server on a distributed ...
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Suppress Warning Message On Recall Of Datasets

The problem is with the warning message in IDz which tells the user this may be an SCLM dataset and asks if you want to continue. We don't have this message in ISPF and we would like to have the same behavior in IDz. So what if a dataset is under ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 6 Future consideration

File Manager EDIT Allows PACK ON while ISPF Global configuration option Global_Disable_Pack=YES in effect

We have an ISPF Configuration modified via usermod where we have enabled Global_Disable_Pack=YES so that no ISPF users are able to create PDS Member(s) with PACK ON , however realized File Manager EDIT allow users with PACK ON on the systems where...
almost 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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