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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 MacOS support for locally installed client

We need MacOS support for the HoD locally installed client as part of our mainframe community work with MacOS.
21 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 0 Submitted

Include User Name and Mapped User ID details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to filter z/OS Connect API Provider metrics on my ODP dashboard based on the User Name and Mapped User ID of requests. This will allow us to gain insights into usage across different distributed applicatio...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

Include HTTP Return Codes details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect Site Reliability Engineer, I want to be able to view request HTTP Return Codes for z/OS Connect APIs in the ODP datasets. Today, I can see a "count" metric of HTTP Error Codes, but not the actual Error Codes. This will allow me, ...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

Include z/OS Connect HTTP Header details in metrics published to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to view header details, such as Correlation ID, in the z/OS Connect Request data that is sent to Omegamon Data Provider. This will allow me to add filters to my dashboards to view specific requests, using ...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to update JCL created by UnitTest task

The generated JCL from the task creates a temporary file that doesn't use the ${HLQ} variable that all the other datasets use. Instead, it uses &SYSUID as the HLQ for the dataset. Given that multiple builds could be running concurrently with t...
2 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

Cross debugging

There are some scenarios where the user who is intended to debug some program isn't the one who submits the JCL. Among other situations, this happens when the job is launched from ControlM. In this case, the principal is a service user instead of ...
7 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
4 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cobol Editor BIDI support

Currently BIDI customers use mostly LPEX editor. The COBOL editor BIDI support is minimal and is not sufficient. It is required in order to allow BIDI customersa) enjoy from COBOL editor features b) allow BIDI customer to upgrade to future IDz rel...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Python program control

We're writing an C module for Python that uses __passwd service. Unfortunately, it couldn't be used without issue, because the python shared objects and binaries are not delivered with extattr +p (program control). So we've to code our own usermod...
3 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0 Planned for future release

Notification of Scenarios not catered for

We identified that the the refactoring process doesn't handle EXEC CICS HANDLE AID or HANDLE CONDITION, but tis was only identified when manually reviewing the refactored code. While I appreciate there will be a number of scenarios that can't curr...
12 days ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted