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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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Integrate ZOAU into the z/OS base

ZOAU has become the go to toolset on z/OS for some shops but it is still not something an ISV, or open-source developer, can use as there is no guarantee that every installation will have it. By integrating it into the z/OS base so it is installed...
11 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 4 Delivered

Upgrade zconbt to accept OpenAPI 3.0 spec input.

Upgrade the ability of the utility zconbt, to accept OpenAPI 3.0 documents, as well as Swagger 2.0 documents when creating .ara files
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered
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Add font and font size preference specific to IBM RDz Data Editor

IBM RDz Data Editor should have its own font settings in its own preference. Currently, the font for the Data Editor can only be mofified with other features under Windows/Preferences/General/Appearance/Colors and Font/Basic/Text Font. If it is ch...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 4 Delivered

Message which indicates if ICSF is available at CICS startup

CICS should write a message at startup indicating if SSL processing will be done via software or hardware.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Certify DBB with IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS

DBB and zAppbuild are using git to compute changed files or to carry information about the code base that has been built. It would be great if IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS could be certified for DBB and the build framework
8 months ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

zCEE Native APIC support

Support for retrieving JWT from IBM API Connect: Our API requester endpoints are secured with JWTs. Our organization uses an authorization server fronted by IBM API Connect to obtain JWTs and this is not supported by z/OS Connect. Specifically, th...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

External security manager support as an alternative for group access in server.xml

Currently securing API/service access is managed within server.xml. This takes management of security away from our security team and into the hands of systems teams having to maintain and manage the access for every individual API or service. the...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Dynamic Workload Distribution of IPIC traffic from zCEE to CICS

We need to be able to distribute to Multiple CICS Router regions.. Round-Robin would be sufficient.We use Supportpac CA1T for this functionality, in CICS TG and think that would be a great addition to zCEE.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Delivered

OpenAPI 3.0 support for API's hosted in z/OS Connect using API Provider

We have many z/OS-hosted APIs that we want to expose to our entire enterprise. Our existing z/OS Connect tooling emits Swagger 2.0 as a description of that API, but our corporate API infrastructure requires OpenAPI 3.0 standard taxonomy. The corpo...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Dual Control for GDPS-LCP

To further enhance protection against an individual that has gained access to our systems (or insider) with malicious intent, it is essential to secure the ability to perform destructive actions against our safeguarded copies such as making policy...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 8 Delivered