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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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Make the LE enclave persistent in IMS MPPs without the need of a JVM running in the message region

With API provider and z/OS Connect configured in MPP there is a requirement to set the LLE with POSIX(ON), this drives massive volumes of SMF030 records to be created which leads to issues at offload. from IBM IMS development: From what we have se...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 0

Re-drive prompts for MFA (and UID/PW) to handle multiple connections from different sysplexes and RACF setups

When IDz has multiple RSE connections, multiple DB2 for z/OS connections, multiple sysplexes, and multiple RACF setups, it’s hard to determine which prompts and logins go with which connection in the current connection configuration in IDz. For DB...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Planned for future release

add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
over 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reducing IMS/Db2 connection pooling thread footprint of an MPP when RLA=Y

Details When RLA=Y (PH33024) is set there is an opportunity to enhance IMS/Db2 connection pooling (DSNMIN20) . Right now IMS connection pooling modules DFSESAT0 and DFSESCT0 hand over PSTUSID as EEVPUSID to Db2 . Db2 uses this userid as first part...
over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration

Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

JDK LCM for IBM Installation Manager and Package Utility

Installation Manager and Package Utility is considered a threat for our mission critical applications by our security department, because it runs on an IBM supported open JDK version 8. This version is considered out of date and does not receive t...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Improve FFDC for GDPS

In the case TS002648540, the log and trace data from GDPS did not provide enough details to track down the root cause of the problem. We could not always have the DEBUG ON in GDPS to capture additional message all the time and this will cause floo...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 17 Not under consideration

Support Korean Code Page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator

Implement support for the Korean code page 933 in Remote Connection Emulator when using a DBCS or SOSI compatible session type. Extension is to support all valid code pages. Using IDz 16.0.3 the Korean code page is not supported in the 'Code page'...
10 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 3 Future consideration