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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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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

Operational CPU and Sysplex should be selectable

Currently when Retrieving Operational for a new project the CPU Sysplex data is automatically downloaded, it would be nice if this was added to the Build Configuration as an option in case it needs to be refreshed or if we do not want that informa...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Filtering Operational Information

The Operational information for a large enterprise environment is quite large and much of the data it contains is not relevant from an application level. e.g. The DB2 data tries to download the entire DB2 catalogue which contains not only APPL rel...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Operational Information sharing

The collecting of Operational Information in the Build Configuration is on Project Level yet the information gathered is on zOS Connection. This means if we have 280+ projects per environment (and we do), we need to collect the Operational Informa...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Add collection for SMF88 subclass 1 and 11.

Define a new tables that will maintain SMF 88 subtype 1,11 for logstream performance.
12 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Automated collection of disk capacity data from GPDS - Maybe by writing entries to SMF.

In GDPS today we have a brilliant function to show the current DS8K pool usage related to capacity. GDPS panel named VPCPLCS6 and VPCPLCS7) Showing numbers for usable capacity, provisioned capacity, SGC used, SGC provisioned and much more.The pane...
9 months ago in GDPS 10 Future consideration

Notify or automatically withdraw LCP RECOVER background copy when it ends

Forgetting to ENDCOPY results in eventually running out of SGC captures since the captures involved in the RECOVER remain locked and can't be . Ideally, there would be an additional parameter to specify an automatic ENDCOPY when the background cop...
10 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

Capture File Modification Metadata on PDS Members when Performing DBB Builds

Currently, file metadata such as the created/modified date and time stamps are not being captured on PDS members when performing a DBB Build. The file modification history is blank after new or changed files have been delivered to z/OS. We would l...
13 days ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Under review

Improved security

Any one that has implemented security doesn't run STC with uid 0. Omegamon should not try to open security holes for exploit
13 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Under review

Move the IMS structures above the bar, 64-bit memory

As machines get bigger and faster, they process more IMS transactions per second and we need more storage to process this. We have run out of 31-bit storage. We'd like to move the IMS structures above the bar, 64-bit memory.
25 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

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