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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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Another way for controlling access between IWSz and zCentric IWS-agent on distributed platform instead of using member in EQQPARM dataset.

An audit has revealed that some users have access to both userIDs and passwords for zCentric agent users when updating these in member in EQQPARM dataset.Even if we encrypt the EQQPARM dataset, the person(s) adding/updating user-info into EQQPARM ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Encrypting member in IWSz EQQPARM dataset without dynamically calling EQQBEX

In order for no one to be able to retrieve userIDs/Passwords from member in EQQPARM dataset containing userIDs and passwords for controlling access between IWSz and zCentric IWS-agent on distributed platform this dataset needs to be encrypted. How...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Option to expose data conversion error in API response

z/OS Connect APIs return HTTP SC200 (OK) despite reporting many GMOMW0005E data conversion errors in the STDOUT. According to L2 support, this data conversion error is so pervasive that zCEE just log the error messages but move on to provide the A...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add zCEE Requester support for text/plain responses

zCEE Requester currently only supports JSON responses. Please add support for text/plain responses.
about 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Option for generating Alternate Copybook Format for JSON

Support alternate format for generated CopyBooks generated by zconbt (or an alternate utility). Current format is proprietary to zCEE Requester. An alternate format could be processed directly by native JSON Parsing/Generation using COBOL and PLI ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

New install option to disable Kerberos Authentication

We have Blue Prism RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in use to automate TN3270 access. If IBM Personal Communication is also installed on the same machine Blue Prism Login Agent is not connecting. This problem is caused by the Kerberos feature of P...
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Discovery Products Use By Month - option to download all the usage data from all systems combined

One of the #1 things I use the product for is the Discovered Product Use by Moth. In here, after drilling down from LPAR>LIBRARY, I get the most granular data usage, going down to the jobname/userid/date/library, etc. 99% of the time, this is t...
5 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 2 Functionality already exists

Configuration refresh and relative generation

The ability to refresh the policy configuration screen should provide the same dsn codification as the INGAMS command
5 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Planned for future release

zCEE: Support for WebSocket Clients

We have a requirement to establish WebSocket connection with our partner application to receive the various responses since the partner application supports only WebSocket API connection while sending its responses.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration