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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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High Speed Connector endpoint group file lacks the ability to specify a local bind to IP address.

We have a use case which will not allow the use of the default CPU IP address as the source IP for a TCP/IP connection. As it is now, the is no mechanism to specify an alternate binding address to use with High Speed Connector.
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Monitoring of Central Storage Frames having information of program name

We would like to have the information of program name in view that shows Central Storage Frames usage by a job batch. This because we have a monitoring to alarm when a job consumes more than a threshold of Central Storage Frames but in case of exe...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

AT-TLS awareness for IMS Connect – client certificate RACF user propagation

With AT-TLS and Client authentication it is possible to check the certificate and map it to a RACF userid (SAFCheck Option). Db2 DDF already supports that mechanism, that is called AT-TLS aware (see AT-TLS documentation). We need an option to asso...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

IDz: Add the "Open Member" function to the JCL Editor

When viewing/editing a JCL member with the JCL Editor, the Context Menu should support the "Open Member" function. This function is available in the Context Menu when viewing/editing a JCL member with the LPEX Editor but not with the JCL Editor.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Add ASCII/Text transfer support to the SFTP server

Currently we are using FTPS support where clients can use both binary and text options while sending files to zTPF. The SFTP support provided only support binary transfers and we would like to be able to offer the ASCII/text option.
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Omegamon CICS should monitor CMAS regions

We have needs to monitor CMAS regions the same way as other CICS regions (including Near-Tearm History). Please consider in future releases.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Need SA to re-establish hardware connections without recycles

There are numerous occurrences where the BCPII and Hardware connections to the Z environment have failed, either due to an operator not suspending the connection or due to a Hardware failure. When this occurs there is no current ability to redrive...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

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