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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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Request to build IDz on latest version of Eclipse.

Customer is requesting to build IDz on latest version of Eclipse to enable Co-pilot. Current version doesn't support enabling co-pilot, which is one of the blockers to drive adoption. Co-pilot makes coding easier as it has enhanced IntelliSense fe...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

Improve startup time of build environment groovyz

For builds with a small build lists - such as user builds or feature branch builds, the startup time for the environment of groovyz (including JAVA and the interpretation of the groovy scripts) takes a significant time. While the personal or share...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Delivered

TLVLOG output

It would be useful to create another way of Dataset to collect the output of TLVLOG. This new way could allow to collect it in several datasets that would avoid to have a huge sequential dataset with all the TLVLOG from long time. For example, a GDG.
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Amendment in DFHWB0112I XMEOUT parameters/Message inserts

CICS doesn't really need an additional check (i.e. option 3) for secured SSL connection (HTTPS) while web domain initialization. Instead, this should be checked during HTTP authentication for the requests that are made using EXEC CICS WEB OPEN or ...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API When a client submits an API request to z/OS Connect, it receives a response (with JSON payload), and an HTTP status code. However, the status code does not reflect any non-fatal...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

Suport for IBM CCSID 1379 (Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters)

There is constant request over a couple of years for this CCSID to be supported for our businesses in Hong Kong. Appreciate if you can consider adding this support as soon as possible.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

configurability of RAFC group names

The RACF group names (i.a. DBBADMNS, DBBUSERS, DBBGUEST) used in DBB should be configurable so they can be changed to adhere to company name conventions. Otherwise it can be difficult to roll out DBB Version 2.
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

add a configurable timer and max. number of request to the audit interceptor to force writing SMF123V2 record

add a configurable timer and a configurable max. number of requests to the audit interceptor, that will flush the queue and write the SMF123V2 record as configured by the customer
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect Gradle and dependecy delivery over SMP/e

We are using the API first scenario and therefore do not require the zOS Connect designer. It means that we will integrate the Gradle copybook build in IDz and the WAR build under DBB. For both purposes we require a delivery of both the Gradle scr...
11 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered