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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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Seperate PDF Orientation in email attachments

This RFE is related to PDF email attachments. There is a parameter in ITOM PA that sets page size and orientation. The problem is that this parameter is universal, that is affects all PDFs, no matter distribution list. We have several departments ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting

Make additional Interpolation algorithms available to Fractal Forecasting. Mark this one as important to the customer.Add additional interpolation algorithms - LINEAR, POLY2, and POLY3 – same as we do for SmartPath forecasting.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

_BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT: Error message if Named TCP/IP not up and available.

When setting up new environment and setting _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT=xxxxxx, specified; if the named TCP/IP stack is not available; a distinctive message should be produced. Trace just shows: CTG6525E Unable to start handler for the tcp: protocol...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

QoL enhancements for HoD

As a enhancement for the HOD product, we would like to have implemented the following things: Print all selected documents at the same time Flag in a different color the pdfs that has been printed/opened before Auto refresh the document list every...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

BAR file image maps in PComm; Toolbar horizontal scrolling

IBM/HCL to fix images that are used in the .bar file to not need a image home folder, but allow us to imbed the images as part of the session files so when we deploy sessions, we don’t have to worry about toolbar mapping of images to a specific fo...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Cluster level view of systems (for z/OS Connect)

For resiliency, best practice is to run multiple production z/OS Connect servers in a group and this must be managed as a single entity. To support this, we need an overall view of how this service (as a cluster) is performing, and the ability to ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Planned for future release

Accept the use of structure = ''; for defined structures

Initialization of DECLARED structures can be done with Structure = ‘’; But for DEFINED structures, one get IBM1678I Assignment of CHARACTER to STRUCTURE TYPE is invalid. This is seen by most of our developers as an impediment to the adoption of de...
over 1 year ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Create latest HOD package in Docker Container

Bureau of Fiscal Service is currently upgrading Host On Demand implementation and moving from AIX to RHEL and to the latest version of HOD.
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release

Macro PasteText API

There's an issue with copying and pasting text from excel to PComm.. I have informed the development team about this missing feature in current PCOMM automation library autECLPS.PasteText. Currently while copying the clipboard content in the PCOMM...
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

TADZ - VIPA Support

Enable the TADZ STC HSIJANLO to bind to a VIPA to make this product Sysplex aware.
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Planned for future release