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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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    SHOPZ enhancement

    We would like ShopZ to propose an HTML5 based downloader, through a browser and without any installation of Windows software or Java plugin. Enterprise workstations are subject to more and more security constraints. A bare browser functionality sh...
    15 days ago in IBM Shopz 0 Submitted

    Omegamon enhancements

    Add “OR” logic for View By “HLQ” (both “Dataset” and “All Datasets”); Please update the KB/MB/GB conversion for summarization (1000 vs 1024). Add a parameter in the Configuration Manager to change this for data collection. Add KB (Kilobytes) field...
    6 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Submitted

    Need support for editing DBCS members where one or both SO/SI are missing

    When source code members miss one or both SO/SI characters (x'0E or x'0F) then IDz on VS code and Eclipse fail to edit them or display them as read only. Customers need to be able to edit and save them to MVS.
    7 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

    IMS Catalog: Enhance Library Builder Utility to generate source for an ACB version

    This goes hand in hand with IMSSS-I-312] . IMS Catalog stores versions of ACBs. There is a Library Builder Utility that can generate the source for the ACBs. This should be enhanced to generate source for ACB versions so that it would allow for fa...
    7 days ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Submitted

    Allow Change Accumulation to have dual output datasets

    From a recoverability perspective, it is good practice to have dual copies of logs, archives, image copies. Change Accumulation datasets are also used in recovery and it would be helpful if we could write dual Change Accumulation datasets, one on ...
    7 days ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Change Accumulation 0 Submitted

    IMS Catalog should support ACB update restore to old version

    The catalog can keep x days or x number of ACBs and thus these can be used to backout an ACB change. But there is no way of activating an old ACB from catalog and updating the Directory with the details of the restored or old ACB. This would allow...
    7 days ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Submitted

    Writing IMS type x'99' log records for CDC to an external/separate IMS Log dataset.

    WE are currently running a single image of IMS, and have CDC streaming of DB updates enabled to and Enterprise Event Hub. Due to the number of DB's enabled for streaming, the volume of log records written since enabling CDC has significantly incre...
    8 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Submitted

    Enhance jsub to be event driven

    It would be great if we could enhance jsub to be notified by an even when the submission has finished, rather than by polling the JES log. In our testing, especially for short running jobs, which make up the majority of our test suite, we have fou...
    6 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

    Include the GNU find command

    Newer versions of GitLab Runner for z/OS uses a variation of the find command "-exec" action that terminates the command with a plus (i.e. '+'). The find command that comes with z/OS doesn't support that syntax. It would be good to provide an opti...
    15 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Add sftp support to curl

    We need this feature to upload dumps. At the moment it is not included: % /usr/lpp/IBM/foz/v1r1/bin/curl -Vcurl 8.13.0 (i370-ibm-openedition) libcurl/8.13.0 OpenSSL/3.4.0 zlib/1.3.1Release-Date: 2025-04-02Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophe...
    3 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Submitted

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