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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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Kafka UI for DG

Kafka UI offers several advantages that can significantly enhance the management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of your Kafka environment. Advantages : Real-time Monitoring: Kafka UI provides real-time metrics and status of Kafka brokers, topics...
4 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Local MQ Queue name as opposed to Queue Manager only

Where MQ Queues are part of an end to end flow, please externalise to AppD the Local MQ Queue names as opposed to only the Queue Managers. This will be beneficial where multiple queues are connected to a single Queue manager and remove doubt about...
4 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, if any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check..

HI , As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, and as CICSCAT3 transaction is open for all, If any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not a part CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check. This will e...
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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

Provide COBOL support for YAML and utility to convert DTD to a COBOL record definition,

We have a data structure/format in .YAML /YML file. And require ability/utility to convert YML DTD to a COBOL equivalent copybook
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

EQQ messages for jobs NOPed and SR availability change

Dear IWSz development team, Due to batch monitor requirement, we're looking for EQQ messages for the circumstances: 1) When a job is NOPed. 2) When a job is Held. 3) When SR availability is changed, especially when SR is changed to AVAIL(YES) no m...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

MSGID field in PIPE EDIT and MRT needs to be larger

Increase MSGID in PIPE EDIT and MRT from 12 characters to 16 (or more, if convenient).MSGID currently has a limit of only 12 characters.NetView AT already supports MSGID of up to 255 characters. While this will probably never be needed in my caree...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Issue a GEOxxxxxI message every time an LCP SGC capture expires, including a creation timestamp in the message information

This would allow customers relying on LCP for cyber security to monitor the expiration of capture to ensure that no captures were being expired outside of agreed time limits.
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 5 Planned for future release

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

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