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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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    Allow selective EXPORT of reports from a Dashboard

    Currently there is no ability in a Dashboard to select reports(s) that are to be EXPORTed. It is either an all or nothing approach. I have built a dashboard that has 28 reports and would like to only 4 of these reports via a Scheduled Export to ou...
    about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

    Allow the user to customize attribute collection, keeping the current minimum set as "mandatory" and additional metrics as optional. In this way, the client will be responsible for granularizing the collection of metadata from the environment, as well as the balance between the desired level of detail versus the overhead caused.

    We recently conducted a PoC for this client, which uses a competitor's solution (Dynatrace) in a small portion of its environment. Unfortunately, we were disqualified for failing to meet the following requirements: The CICS transaction informati...
    2 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

    IntelliMagic for z/OS Storage / DSS Replication / Add a group nickname to identify specific Link-IDs of a DSS

    I would like to have the option, to set a group nickname in the sharedcfg.txt for the replication links of each DSS. This would make the replication behaviour more transparent, because you see, which Link-IDs belong together for a specific replica...
    18 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

    ESAF-Connection-Pooling in DSNMIN20 should be configurable

    The current implementation of DSNMIN20 includes a fixed table with 50 table spaces for pooling ESAF connections. This fixed size is very rigid and inflexible.It would be much more flexible if the upper limit for the connections were configurable. ...
    3 months ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 0 Under review

    Add Timeout Argument to Find, Wait and Hold Macro/Functions (assembler & C)

    Applications/Utilities/Processes need a way to provide the max amount of time it is willing to wait to access a data record. If the timeout value for the "W"ait has been reached, then the process can make a determination what should happen in the ...
    7 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

    Detecting inoperable subsystem to be decommissioned ( middleware CICS , DB2 , MQ , IMS )

    In Health Exceptions, enable a "bottom line" parameter , in opposite to threshold, to filter out low or no activity in metrics indicators like paging , CPU consuming and virtual memory usage. If this behavior persists in a time period is a candida...
    about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 2 Under review

    Silo-off reports by Application and only allow READ access to that silo for a subset of those Application users without them having access to any other options in the Web Reporter

    Provide the capability to be able to silo-off reports by Application and only allow READ access to that silo for a subset of those Application users without them having access to any other options in the Web Reporter. We have a number of Clients r...
    about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Under review

    zSecure - Events Report enhancement for IP (in and out filters)

    The current EV.I report is very helpful to create quickly a good report. It would be extremely beneficial if the filtering of the IP and Port can be better filtered with either local or remote or both.Currently the provided IP address or Port are ...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

    zSecure - Improve Command generation to delete a contained user

    Currently zSecure Panels (when deleting a Userid) offers only the option: 1. Delete userid and override containment protection (Y/N; blank=N) Hence, if the user is contained one can enter Y to let zSecure generate the delete command anyway. Howeve...
    about 2 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Admin 0 Under review

    Enhance the product by implementing a strict-dynamic Content Security Policy (CSP) to improve security against script injection attacks

    Enhance the product by implementing a strict-dynamic Content Security Policy (CSP) to improve security against script injection attacks => This approach leverages nonces or hashes for trusted scripts while allowing dynamically added scripts to ...
    8 days ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 0 Under review

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