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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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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

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

Permit SAF keyrings to be used instead of jks files for host connection.

Currently HATS requires a jks files to be used if the host connection is secure. When the HATS application is deployed on z/OS in WAS the SAF keyrings should be used either as a default or a method to switch when deploying. This is required due to...
over 1 year ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

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

Automatically populate the "Data Type" when running a selected DB2 statement

Since the previous "Value"s are stored after running a selected DB2 statement, it would be helpful if the "Data Type"s of these host variable would be retained. This would be especially useful for queries with several conditions. It seems as thoug...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Enhance Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) to support 62x160 screen size in IDZ v16

Please support 62x160 screen size in Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDZ v16. Users can use this screen size in Host Emulator before in IDZ v15, however this screen size didn't support in IDZ v16 RCE. We have a wide number of ISPF applications...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Missing actual Build date and time in DBB Build report

After the DBB User build / Pipeline build (impact build), DBB will generate a “Build Report” and showing DBB toolkit version details on the top of the report, which is not much relevant to developers. Instead that information, developer wanted the...
9 months ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Planned for future release

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

(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

Support for wildcard in DDL DROP for IMS Databases and PSBs

We refresh and rebuild test environment from production where we cleanup everything in test and build using the components from production by changing component names. So we could use DDL DROP with wildcard where we can erase the test definitions ...
9 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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