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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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HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
23 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Under review

Protect deletion of Dual Control tickets

Dual Control policy allows you to retain tickets for a specified period. We have set up to retain executed tickets for 52 weeks. However, VPCPDC00 (Dual Control Tickets panel) allows you to delete without any means to protect that from happening. ...
1 day ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

GDPS provisions SAF controls for accessing Netview when Netview already has a SAF resource to perform this. This means there are now two resources protecting the same function

With the implementation of GDPS 4.7 and the steps outlined in Role based security, GDPS folks have provided the following profile GDPSADMIN.USERCTL.<domain_id>. This means that when role based security is enabled and GDPS 4.7 is initialized ...
2 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Update the product to use SMF Exit IEFU86

The SMF Exits that this product uses (IEFU83 & IEFU84) were discontinued in our environment in favor of the updated SMF Exit IEFU86. We can't go back to the old Exits and would need the product to be updated to use the IEFU86 Exit for collecti...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 2

Provide soultion to automate setting of CICS options

We are looking to automate our mainframe testing. We are using the RSE API to enable automatic submission of jobs. With jobs adding hourglass options is trivial with the correct dd names, but with CICS we only have the BMS panels with HGCC and HGU...
11 days ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Under review

Update code to allow SDA files in /kds/support/TEMS directory to be written with different permissions

By default, if the SDA process is unsuccessful, the intermediary SDA files are written with the 'Write' bit turned on in 'Other' class. As a result, we would like to request for an enhancement to the code where a parameter can be added so that cus...
16 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

Possibility of logging in and logging out of a session, by calling an external API

In order to track users connecting and disconnecting in an applinx server farm, we want to update an external table by calling an API service. Instead of going through all the farm servers and checking if a session exists or not.
3 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

We are asking for an enhancement to FM for IMS to have the capability of add/update a template, for an IMS managed ACB system running in an IMS data sharing environment, on any IMS within the data sharing environment.

The capability to add/update a template for an IMS managed ACB system, on a system where the IMS region isn't running, isn't in the current design of File Manager. We would like to see the enhancement of the product, to run/update a template on an...
3 days ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support for PL/I

Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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