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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 Capability to Write to SYSLOG

ZOAU would benefit from providing a standard mechanism to write a message to the z/OS system log. In automated processes, it is often imperative to indicate progress or the motivation for the process or even indicate that a process is taking place...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Future 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....
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Split & Swap screen in GDPS Netview

Currently under GDPS Netview, there is limitation to split/swap between multiple screens. With the ability to split & swap between multiple screens, GDPS actions & verifications can be managed well in parallel & it would be useful to...
5 months ago in GDPS 4 Not under consideration

API Requester support for additional content-type

Currently, API Requester only supports a content-type of application/json We have teams that require to be able to call REST APIs with content-types other than the one currently supported:multipart/form-dataapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplica...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Planned for future release

Provide a DELETE option for the STOP SECONDARY, and a NOCOPY option for the START SECONDARY script statements

As an MGM4SITE environment with external LCP, we have regular resiliency tests where we failover from one region to the other (REG-A to REG-B). When we do this we have to terminate the copy to the LCP source disk in the old recovery region (REG-B)...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Sample code for zWS user exits (EQQUXnnn) should allow a TRACE for input parameters and return codes

For sample exit code provided in SEQQSAMP or generated from the exit workbench, it would help to be able to turn on a trace which lists the input parameters (normally pointed to via register 1) and the return code used to leave the exit, as this i...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Define layout for SMF_105 records (GDPS RPO data)

Hi team, We would like to have the possibility of reporting real time RPO information using iZPCA. This will allow us to act faster and more accurately in events that can impact the client data replication and all of its disaster recovery strategy...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 3

Improve performance of C++ try/catch when exception is thrown

Our coding best practice guidelines advise developers not to use the try-throw-catch method in C++ code for control of the program flow or transaction validation as the underlying TPF mechanism for identifying the source of the thrower results in ...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SSH JAM recycle should defer shutdown to allow work/connections in progress to complete

When SSH JAM is recycled, any SFTP connections in progress are lost. Update the SSH JAM to allow connection in progress to complete.
2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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