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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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API toolkit - API Requestor capability

Currently the toolkit provides little or no support for creation, generation or deployment of API requestor services. In tandem with API's with multiple services and complex / large data structures this leads to consider devt overheads using the t...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

IZPCA support for extended format SMF records

Hi all, As discussed on case TS016821698, we want to read SMF record type 1153 (new in ZOS 2.5), JES Monitoring Facility Data, previously written as type 84. IZPCA actually has record type 84 mapped (DRLRS084). Record type 1153 is written using SM...
3 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Using Macro Vars to Define Extract Location Retrieves Only 1 Char in the REST Web Service

The developer is using macro variables to define where on the screen to extract a piece of data and the macro extracts it properly, but the web service built on that macro always replies with only a 1-character string. The macro is using macro var...
3 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

Enhance CRUISE statistics to provide more flexibility and customization in the chaining data collection methodolgy

As a database administrator, I want to improve the collection and reporting of data distribution metrics by CRUISE so that I can identify potential problems in the database more easily and quickly and remediate them in a timely manner to enhance t...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

Copy a binary file between different remote systems or local and remote system

The idea is to allow copying sequencial PDS's or PDS's members with binary data from one remote system to a different remote system and between the local and remote system in the IDz IDE
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Support SMF123 subtype 2 V2 record layout

IBM z/OS Connect has recently improved their SMF123 records. We need IZDS to support their new record layouts. zOS Connect recently improved SMF details for API Requesters. SMF123-subtype 2-V2 is an additional new record layout. Here is a link to ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

IBM MQ Configuration file for SSL to support multiple ciphers

We use a common default MQ SSL Configuration file for all our MQ SSL channels. The IBM limitation is that the MQ configuration file can only have one cipher defined, unlike the HTTP & MONGO SSL Configuration files that support the definition o...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add ability to include tags to the provisioned resources

Adding tags with metadata about the resources like Virtual Servers will help in large ICIC installations. These tags may be later used to filter resources in operations like inventory, billing, maintenance, automation and so on. Tags are defined b...
about 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 4 Needs more information

List Flashcopy volumes in MVS UCB Format via GDPS Command

Hello, Customer was using the GEOPARM before the XML format in order to create (by REXX develloped by themselves) MVS Command for turning the Flashcopy volumes ONLINE or OFFLINE. So they could vary Online the volumes, Dump them and vary Offline ag...
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Update CICS Service Provider to produce connector statistics

We would like to be able to monitor the connection statistics for the CICS SOR backends and whilst the IMS provider does use JCA, the CICS provider does not and therefore no JCA MXBean is provided which would allow z/OS Connect to gather the stati...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration