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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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Restricting access to specific bot commands and command options for specific users and/or globally.

Introduce "read-only" access mode limited to getting system status. Blocking any possibility to perform any task (like stopping resources) which could change system state.
about 1 month ago in IBM Z ChatOps 2 Planned for future release

Builtin function for CMPSC & zEDC (data compression)

In CICS, we're currently heavily relying on compression of data before we write the data to VSAM datasets. This is currently done by a no longer supported ISV software. We think about how to migrate it to a better solution that provides better way...
about 1 month ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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...
24 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 2 Not under consideration

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

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

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

When looking at transaction IO and the transaction touched MQ, then I would like to be able to get to the MQ queue definition in the MQ monitor from the CICS transaction history

When we look at CICS transaction history and specifically transactions touching MQ, then in the history we can find queue stats. When we place a S next too the queue name on workspace KCPTDCMS, we would like to see an additional shortcut to allow ...
6 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Other 0 Submitted

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 ...
16 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

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

Enhance IBM JZOS API to throw an exception when a Java application tries to read a corrupted VSAM dataset

As part of an application conversion from Assembler to Java, we've found an issue related to error handling where the JZOS API does not handle well. In our case it is related to accessing a corrupt VSAM file, and we've seen the same outcome when r...
12 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Submitted