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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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Ignore unexpected fields in the Response to apiRequester call in Open API V2

We have CICS Transactions issuing apiRequester calls to various distributed applications. Occasionally we find that these distributed applications may add new fields to the response as part of a new release, often without notifying the application...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

generic BAQCSTUB in SBAQLIB to merge SBAQLIB and SBAQLIB1

Please merge SBAQLIB and SBAQLIB1 into a single dataset or use distinct program names across the two datasets. Using unique program names when unique functionality is required allows customers to use LinkList to pull the version of zOS Connect int...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Calculates the AIU’s percentage busy for z/VM & z/Linux

Enhance IzPCA tables to calculate the AIU’s percentage busy for z/VM & z/Linux. Details: We're currently using a z16 CEC and the customer would like to measure the AIU’s processor utilization. The tests are happening in a zLINUX server. This s...
5 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0

(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

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

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

Optimized LUW_DB2 database query

Currently we create LUW Db2 database manually and then attached that database when we create new project in build client. We do this to create optimized DB2 database by using tweaked create database query. We want to avoid this manual DB2 create s...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Change to generated JCL out of PGM=HSICCSI

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: Currently the CSI report generates IQ-JCL which is pretty much hard coded and therefore not so useful for us. Instead provide t...
5 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

IDz v14.2.2 does not notification developers about code change in Git remote branch

Customer's original request: IDz v14.2.2 is not showing any notifications in the Git perspective when there are changes on the Git Bitbucket server. This caused developers to use older version of code base. Customer has been using Sourcetree till ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under 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

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