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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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Add Support for Multi-Target Global Mirror Introduced in DS8900F Release 9.4

This would allow us to take two distinct sets of Safeguarded Copies from a single environment, each set making use of different parameters. For instance, we could thus address the requirements of the business (captures every 30 minutes, kept for 1...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Collect data provider info for outbound z/OS Connect server

As per TS017415564, Citi needs to send performance and other critical operational data for zOS connect outbound servers to zLDA. These includes but not limited to request URI/endpoint used, response received from provider and https codes.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Under review

Enabel the EPILOG in OMEGAMON z/OS in the future

Hi support, In the PID - 5698-T01 , the lastest version in OM-z/OS V550, withdrew the EPILOG support from V530. In the document, the alternately method - RMF III near term history is instead. But we found the RMF III report only get the SYSTEM lev...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic SGC volume expansion from GDPS

It would be great if GDPS could initiate and validate the completion of a Dynamic SGC volume expansion instead of client should do it manually from DS8K GUI/CLI.It would give great value if we can do our work from GDPS directly instead of having a...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 16 Future consideration

Add preference for RDz Data Editor to change the square to another monospaced character

If binary data is included in the record and displayed with the RDz Data Editor, it can include '?'(U+25AD0 in place of a control character. Add a new preference item to the font settings in the data editor to allow users to change the '?'(U+25AD)...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Improvements to Load Parameter Management in Standard Actions

In our production plex, we have 576 load parameter combinations for our applications systems. Performing mass updates is cumbersome and time consuming. We would like to see enhancements to the process thus; 1. The ability to backup these entries t...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 14 Future consideration

Enable File Manager in VS Code

Mainframe developers sometimes need to use File Manager. More and more, they are using VS Code for day-to-day work. It would sure be nice to have an extension in VS Code for File Manager, not least so that you can look at messages in and definitio...
10 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0

Enhancement of the JCICS API

Among other things, we use the two EXEC CICS commands EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD and EXEC CICS VERIFY PHRASE in C and COBOL programs. As part of our migration to Java, we would also like to convert these C and COBOL programs to Java and need a corr...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Refactoring for PLi modules

Right now IDz has functionality to identify unused variable in cobol modules. we need similar future for PLi modules as well. We have 1000s of PLi modules. we need similar functionalities like cobol modules
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 1 Future consideration

Allow for rebalance of CICS regions connected to Couriers after restart.

Once a CICS region is connected to a particular courier in the base component, it will continue to connect to the same courier across restarts of the base component. Please allow for the (optional?) redistribution of the connections, balanced acro...
4 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration