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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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Zookeeper ACL is requested for security reasons

Security scans have discovered that the ADDI-Server has a securtity vulnerabilty: Apache Zookeeper Common/Default Nodes Accessible Without ACL port 2181/tcp. Apache ZooKeeper is essentially a centralized service for distributed systems to a hierar...
2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Application Discovery Configuration Admin dashboard login with smartcard/client certificate(CAC)

Hi,Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence version 6.1.3 introduced authentication possibility in Application Discovery Configuration Admin dashboards. But it's implemented today through ldap userid/pw. Passwords are not recommended way fo...
2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

Initialize Cobol Language Environment

The product provides the capability to be customized with user exits. Since programming user exits with cobol is not a question of performance any more, they get rewriten from assembler programming language to cobol. Today, it is mandatory to crea...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Rearrange the Configure User Build views

The Configure User Build dialog has the following pages: General information File attributes Log File Script parameters Additonal Files to Load Options 2 and 3 only have to be specified once but we never change them post the initial configuration....
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Task history collection filters to reduce/control collection.

Task history collection collects records for all task in the region. We want to be able to filter on what tasks are collected. and only collect the records for tasks that pass the filters setup for the region. The filters could be, but not limited...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

WAS Liberty for z/OS tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction which connects between WAS Liberty on z/OS and Db2 for z/OS via JDBC Type 2.Competitor is Dynatrace which supports WAS Liberty on z/OS but out customer wants to use IBM Instana if this support will be ad...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0

HBOG054E message to be sent to syslog

Today, HBOG054E is issued only to STDERR, wouil it be possible to have it sent to the SYSLOG, so that we can trap it via System Automation and raise an lert ?
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

zHyperlink statistics Synchronous I/O Section 1 is missing in CDP for SMF42

zHyperlink statistics Synchronous I/O Section 1 is missing in CDP for SMF42
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Copy services issues are reported under a generic problem code

In the support case, we have an issue with the copy services license key (missing the MGM license) which prevent the START SECONDARY after a planned hyperswap. However, the issue is only reported under a generic problem code which makes it difficu...
about 5 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

Enhance the Reporting on DASD Volumes such that not all are reported on as MOD9s

Use the number of cylinders per Dasd volume to denote if a MOD27 or MOD54 rather then denoting all volumes as MOD9s.
4 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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