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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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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

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

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

AD - Representing DL1 call graph/DB's in different annotation.

If common DL-1 service module “pgm-x’ having CBLTDLI is called by ‘pgm-1’ , ‘pgm-2’, ‘pgm-3’ for several business reasons, finally at the end AD generates 3 different call arrows towards different databases for same physical call in the service mo...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Running Distributed Gateway on zCX

Having Distributed Gateway running on zCX can help look into this solution a whole for Z. And there a much high processing power and more resources on Z than running on Kubernetes, it can help supporting huge transaction volumes for Mainframe appl...
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Enhancements for validating DBB toolkit setup/configuration

Please consult the thread at https://github.com/IBM/dbb-zappbuild/discussions/466 I am often asked to validate things with regards to DBB/zAppBuild. Many of these tasks I manually do, though I have a few scripts of my own that do some of it. I rea...
9 months ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

Improve performance for running code review by JCL

When running a code review/sowftware analyze in IDz it takes miliseconds, when running it by JCL the same code review takes about a minute. Most of the time seems to isolated to starting up a headless instance of eclipse, even when implementing ca...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 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

Add version/release number to folders in uss as in mvs when installing products

When idz ee and its different component like zexpl, zee, dbb and so on are installed on the mainframe then version/release numbers are created in mvs like V3R3M0, V16R0M0, V2R0M0 but there are no version/release-numbers in uss. If we would install...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 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 ...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review