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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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AD lacks inter-relation analysis capability from java service connected to mainframe.

Proposed idea: 1. In current AD 6.0.1/6.1.x all artifacts loaded from z/OS into application discovery on windows would enable user to analyze the inter-module relationships/interdependencies in mainframe alone but it didn't show the holistic view ...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to validate OpenAPI descriptors with offline utility similar to tpfdatamap.

OpenAPI documents that contain malformed validation elements will fail with an error message during common deployment phase of restart, leaving them undeployed/unusable. The system will also stop validating a document after encountering an error, ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Timeout for transactions in TCLASS.

Customer would like to be able to define a timeout for TCLASS to begin to purge tasks (PURGETHRESH) rather than relying only on the number of tasks queued.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

UKO: /ukebase/server.xml improvments

It would be easier to have the same timestamp in each log (joblog, syslog, messages.log, trace.log). Currently our zOS logs are in local time and the GUI logs are in UTC. Please add a variable to server.xml in /ukobase to set a timezone Another go...
4 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Under review

zCDP to support CA/BroadCom IDMS SMF record collection

In ASEAN, there is a customer who uses CA/Broadcom IDMS.Customer has some difficulty to produce any IDMS performance related report So.. if zCDP is able to collect IDMS SMF record in near-real time, then forwards it into Analytic Platform (such li...
8 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Store outputs of the software analyzer in individual files

At the moment the output of all runs is stored in a single file. In the future, we would like the run of every programm anaylized stored in an individual file (XML, JUnit, ...).
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

IDZ should officially support the Eclipse Installer / Oomph.

Firstly, the Eclipse Installer / Oomph provides the option of downloading the java JDK option with JustJ. We would suggest IDz offers the same option with its own bundled JDK. Secondly, we would like a EPP package available in this option. With th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

The aqua download site should provide an EPP package to download

Like other IDE (e.g. Eclipse) IDz should also provide an EPP package to download on their aqua download side,. This would simplify the use of the Eclipse-Installer should customers decide to use one. As a first step it would suffice to provide the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

IMS ORF to invoke IMS Index Builder independently to be able to rebuild the Indexes while the Main DB and indexes are active in the control regions.

In order to rebuild the Prim or Secondary indexes, the Main DB and indexes must be taken offline. If the Index build utility can be invoked by ORF and perform the Index maintenance using the Shadow copy, the main database and indexes will remain a...
over 2 years ago in IMS Online Reorganization Facility for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Setting a custom value for the Content-Type HTTP header in z/OS Connect API response messages

We are currently trying to align the error messages sent by our company's REST APIs with this RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7807 (Problem Details for HTTP APIs). One of the standards in the RFC is setting the Content-Type HTTP head...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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