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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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Roll up into one view the results of code coverage and review for an entire application

MetLife: Roll up into one view the results of code coverage and review for an entire application (which could be heterogeneous in terms of the languages, subsystems, and platforms used).Danske Bank: We want to enable code coverage for the entire t...
over 10 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 5 Not under consideration

AD to provide support for C

Provide support for the C programming language at the same level as COBOL and PL/I
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Toolkit to allow for JCL distribution to multiple agents

The OMEGAMON Toolkit allows for storage administrators to create all variety of jobs or commands, launch them to the operating environment and review the results. Administrators of very large environments often need to direct these jobs or command...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 4 Functionality already exists

Allow DFHLS2WS/DFHWS2LS to set User-ID and/or security bits for generated files (WSBIND, WSDL, LOG)

We have a lot of developers in our shop and most DO NOT have an OMVS segment. This was not a problem until we installed z/OS 2.1. Files generated by the Web Service Assistant can now only be updated by someone with 'superuser' authority or by the ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

HOD Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

IBM Host On-Demand (HOD) pages are vulnerable to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). Description of XSS from application auditors: "Cross Site Scripting (XSS) is a web application vulnerability where user input is not sanitized properly, allowing a malici...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 4 Not under consideration

PTF Ordering Authorisation for z D&T products

We have multiple business partners who does not own the real z H/W, but own z D&T. They need to develop multiple versions or releases of their product based on various z/OS system components. But the PTF level of z D&T library can't be con...
almost 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

TAAD - Ability to alter jobcards for automatic error correction.

we would like to be able to customise the job cards that TAAD submits its automatic error correction jobs under, to better integrate it with our TWS environment. currently the audit jobs cannot submit jobs without a jobcard, and to put them into t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm 1 Functionality already exists

PD Tools - File Manager V14.1 - MQ files editor: automatic conversion to EBCDIC?

We will need to use a template with MQFMT_NONE as recommended, when in doubt about the original encoding of messages in a queue.But it would be much better if, by default, the message is displayed in this original encoding, with the possibility of...
over 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IMS Parallel ICAL calls

The ICAL call allows applications to synchronously call out to external applications. This requirement is to allow multiple synchronous callouts to be issued in parallel with the application waiting for replies when it has issued the last ICAL in ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Customer: NEXT (retailer in UK) wants to use "synchronization file" on NATURAL source code

Customer (NEXT clothing retailer in UK) uses Natural source code and wishes to use synchronization to update the source code. Customer currently has to do manual updates to source code which is labor intensive.
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

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