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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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Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM definitions.

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM delete/define definitions for IMS physical database datasets.
2 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

We need to change Component Version Status on deploy, but do not allow user to change it

We want each component version to be deployed to all environments: DEV, INT, AUS, PRO. Therefore, users cannot deploy to INT if the version was not previously deployed to DEV. To do that we use the version status. After deployment to DEV, we add a...
25 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 2 Not under consideration

Provide parameter like KM2_TIMEOUT (similar to KOB_TIMEOUT) to control idle session timeout for MVS Classic

Helps comply with site's audit requirement to cancel inactive sessions within x minutes.
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Make dynamic resource templates assignable to a system/sysplex so that templates are not shown on systems where we don't want them used

Dynamic resource templates should have an option to only deploy them to a designated system/sysplex, currently all templates are deployed to all systems in the environment. Currently a user can create a resource that is not capable of running on t...
6 days ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Submitted

Leaving certain Omegamon KD2 parameters empty in the configuration will cause RTE failures.

Why: Validating Omegamon configuration parameters in the configuration manager/PARMGEN will prevent failures in the RTE, and thus production issues. The issue: Currently Omegamon KD2 parameters are not validated for being left empty or undefined. ...

Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

Adding UTF-8 support to the CARMA repositories view

In the CARMA repositores view you can view and edit source files stored in Endevor. However some sourcetypes are in UTF-8 (in our case wsdl's and xsd's) but on the moment sources in UTF-8 cannot be viewed or editted because it is not supported by ...
17 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

VSCode interface for ADDI

VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

CSM supports Metro Mirror with Site 4 replication, can GDPS support this configuration, too?

According to DORA regulation, it is possible to have a 2-region infrastructure with the possibility to have a synchronous copy between them, an MTMM 4-Site. This gives one the chance to do a region switch with no disruption to the customers. Nowad...
9 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Add a shortcut to get to queue details quicker

When we are on the workspace KOBSMQ, can you please add a pastpath option Q to get us to directly to workspace KMQQUTAS.
6 days ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Submitted