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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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SMF26BYT and SMFBYU do not appear in Common Data Provider

Could you add these 2 fields please in the product DEFS ?
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

cazcnfg0: not all config statements accept symbols

in de cazcnfg0 parameter files there are statements where you can use system symbols which is very handy to make this parameter file system independant. But some other statements do not accept system symbols which makes it very confusing. The idea...
over 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Monthly Reports Selection should be by Month not by any date in the month

The Cognos Monthly reports select is confusing and is not documented to the end user.
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future 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 ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

IBM Sterling Connect:Direct

We would like that IBM Sterling Connect:Direct would be able to send files to HDFS
almost 5 years ago in IBM Communications Server for Data Center Deployment / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add zCEE Requester support for text/plain responses

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

Avoid API Request failures when the API request/response structure has non-breaking changes.

Context: We are using z/OS Connect's API requester function to make ReST API calls from COBOL Batch programs. We use the Swagger definition (Open API 2.0) of the API, to build the API requester artifacts (COBOL Copybooks and ARA package) via zconb...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Automatic RESTART of collections if current time is more than x hours away from the normal scheduled restart.

There are several collections that one can schedule .. for example RMM collections or Dataset Attributes collections... If the TEPS Started task has been restarted (due to an IPL for example), and the current time is AFTER the time set in the coll...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

(De-)Provision zCX instance with zospt

zCX instances get provisioned and removed using predefined z/OSMF workflows. The required workflow definition files already exist but lack of being fully automated: the first step which gathers instance information by user interaction and the last...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Workflow 1 Not under consideration