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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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Add field to TLOGIQ and TLOGUI with the Version of TADz/IZSAM used to create scan file

We receive each month tens of thousands of TADz scan files from nearly four thousand z/OS sytems belonging to many hundreds of distinct client accounts. We have no way of knowing which scan files have been generated by which version of TADz, and t...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Db2 pureXML Parser

DSN_XMLVALIDATE failed because of this pattern in the XML schema: <xs:pattern value="[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+](|[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+]|[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+ ]{1,2}[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+])"/>
almost 4 years ago in XML for z/OS 5 Future consideration

MainView Support for Instana on Z

My client is using MainView for resource monitoring in their IBM Z systems, instead of Omegamon. Lack of integration between MainView and Instana on Z is blocker of deploy for Instana on Z at Halkbank.
7 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple lineFor example - ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE" This is perfectly valid statem...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Please add the ability to see ENQ Models that is installed in the CICSplex

We are trying to not use the WUI, and to see ENQ models the only way we can do this today is using the WUI. Can you please add the ability to see see ENQ Models in Explorer.
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

TCSACTN=FORCE terminates hung LU6.2 VTAM connections even if CNOS close processing has not completed

As it stands right now during a shutdown hang, TCSACTN=FORCE will not close down LU6.2 parallel connections until after CNOS close processing has completed. Once a region begins to shutdown and gets to the process of terminating of VTAM sessions, ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Search Concatenated Data Sets

Remote z/OS File Search enhancement: When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialogue, please allow for the ability to request that the search treat the datasets as a concatenation of datasets instead of searching...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Consistent date format for display of dates in tables and filter criteria

The display of dates should be consistent across the UKO UI. - The dates displayed in UKO when listing keys and key templates are shown in ISO format YYYY/MM/DD. - The filter criteria for dates for keys and key templates are display in US format M...
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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