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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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Canzlog should stick to current find standards

CANZLOG find has introduced a separate means of doing a RepeatFind Called REVFIND. This is different then all other means of repeat find via browse. Canzlog should utilize existing standards for repeat find.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Convert zWS Exits to Parmlib

Due to the limited Assembler skills, it is becoming extremely difficult to maintain our multitude of zWS-related user exits. It would be beneficial to have the option of paramertising all zWS exits to allow us to remove our dependency on the legac...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Make z/OS Connect policy support more flexible

z/OS Connect policy support currently is very limited. All rules are based on conditions on HTTP headers. The configuration parameter values which overwrite the original ones in the service archive can only be fix values or values containing the v...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Changes in the property files (application-conf) should be picked automatically

If there any changes in any .properties file in application-conf folder, should be picked automatically by DBB user build like CPY/COBOL the dependency files
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Would like to have the DBB Userbuild Configuration parameters to be set one time (like with in the Property Group or other with other concept lile YAML/XML file)

This will reduce the developers effort when ever they build a DBB user Build
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

GDPS ReIpl with Activate

New funktion in GDPS standard action.ReIpl with activate.
about 9 years ago in GDPS 9 Not under consideration

Report extract to FB/FBA/FBM RECFM datasets instead of VB*

Our customer that are looking to convert to ITOM from other vendor products, have downstream MAINFRAME and NON-MAINFRAME application processes that are report data set content positionally sensitive. Currently ITOM captures output into VB* RECFM v...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Request for Adding “luname” Field to Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDz V16.0

In IDz V14.1, when connecting to the z/OS using the Host Connection Emulator (HCE), it was possible to specify the “luname” within the extended host connection properties. However, in IDz V16.0, when connecting to the z/OS using Remote Connection ...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

Fix typos in SMPE install jobs

Hi, Almost all the SMPE jobs includedw with "IBM Open Enterprise Foundation 1.1.0" , contain text in cols 73 to 80. It'd be great if the text stayed within columns 1-72 so less manual editing was needed. Thanks, Travis
4 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Support for Push-Only Traffic from IMS via z/OS Connect API Requester

We are seeing an increased requirement for the mainframe transactional systems to publish updates to distributed systems. Products like Change Data Capture allow us to do this for data that is logged to database or file (typically structured data)...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration