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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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Option in action part of policies to stop scanning of rules when one is applicable

Currently, when using policy, task rules are scanned and applied even if first one is applicable. This is explained in documentation : Specify thresholds for the following attributes as filters. You can define multiple task rules of the same rule ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

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...
5 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...
5 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Under review

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
5 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Respect the dbb-userbuild settings in zapp files also in IDz.

Our users consider it cumbersome to manually click themselves through the whole USS folder structure when configuring the DBB userbuild. With VSCode and z open editor one can configure the user build using a special section of the zapp file (https...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Distributed Gateway on AWS EKS

It is critical for customers who are committed to AWS and need to provide monitoring and observability capabilities for MainFrame
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

CICSPlex WLM should take care of amount of allocated storage in AOR

CPSM does not route requests into a target region having SOS. But if a CICS is close get an SOS it may happen that still new transactions are routed into this CICS.CPSM should put the percentage amount of allocated storage into the WLM decision to...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced DBB User Build results view

Today, DBB User build is prompting the developer after the execution with a dialog to list the programs build log and the build report.When the developer closes the dialog, the information need to be retrieved from work directory on USS, which tak...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add DWC userid (in addition to RACF userid) to EQQPH72I message

Currently the EQQPH72I message, displayed in the mainframe server task which communicates with the zconnector to get to a DWC, contains only the RACFUSER value from the USERMAP table. There may be multiple DWC userids which have the same RACFUSER ...
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

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