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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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Please replace SYSPLEX_NAME lookup table with SMF30SYP

The SYSPLEX lookup table is obsolete for tables that read from SMF type 30 records that already include the SMF30SYP field. It would be acceptable to us if the collect process read directly from this field where possible, or allow the collect jobs...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

EKMF Web integration to Salesforce Cache-Only Key Service

Enable the feature to manage Salesforce Cache-Only Key Service
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 0 Planned for future release

Report on PTF level for discovered products.

System Programmers in our organization use spreadsheets to keep track of PTF levels applied to software products. This is a time consuming and tedious process. It would be very useful if TADZ could discover this information and include it in the '...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Planned for future release

Add etos.exe port information to the TOS Gui

The TOS gui includes fields for ETOS.exe's IP address and host port, but not ETOS.exe's port. Adding this field would display all of the connection information for each gui session.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 0 Planned for future release

Provide host code page 1379 support for 3270 session

Host code page 1379 is recently assigned by IBM Globalization Center of Competency to provide Traditional Chinese Extended Mixed Host, extension including Traditional Chinese, HKSCS, Simplified Chinese.IBM internal Lotus Notes Database:Notes://D01...
about 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Errormessage should be written at Joblog when UserID / Password request is used and "FALLBACKBASICAUTH" is set to NO

"FALLBACKBASICAUTH=NO" is set in our CTG-Init member for processing JSON WEB tokens to not allow logins with UserID and Password. If the CTG application try to login with UserID and Password, the CTG request in the application receives an error m...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Ability to Submit Group Thru DWC (Dynamic Workload Console)

Currently, the DWC does not allow a Group to be submitted. It only submits the application you demand in but not the others in the group. It should prompt to run a the group or specific application within the group. This functionality is available...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Change PopUp Cursor

When i use Subfile with Popup the code for the PopUp Picture is:<img src="/HELLWEB/common/images/validValues.gif" onclick="popup('HATSForm_in_1724_1')" alt="Werte..." onmouseover="this.style.cursor='hand';">It would be better when you could ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

Capability to select specific IP address in batch

In order to have reports for specific server, It would be nice to be able to select an IP address (more than 8 characters) on a select/INC/EXC statement.
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

HACP EE Key Mapper - There is no Key Repetition tab to turn it on or off.

When editing a dataset or program or on a CICS screen, holding down the tab or New Line key does not continuously proceed to the next line or editable value. (You must keep pressing the key to go down the page.) In HACP EE key mapper, there is no ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release