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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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Develop the functionality in File Manager to choose the encoding with a file should be downloaded to a PC through its export to desktop function

BBVA is a very important global bank with operations in Spain, Mexico, Turkey, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, etc. BBVA is the largest bank in Mexico, employing over one thousand of mainframe developers. These developers use IBM Developer for z for th...
about 2 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Under review

Enable a RENAME environment in AAM

Allowing AAM to intercept rename can provide naming enforcement that cannot be restricted by security.
about 4 hours ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Submitted

Make IBM Fault analyzer to work with BLKOFF option as well

In our organization we have used BLKOFF as default option while compiling programs and now to introduce Fault analyzer its not an easy transition as by default we are not able to use the existing compile listing as side files. We have to re-compil...
about 4 hours ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow manual setting of the ANSIBLE_HOST parameter

When the OpenStack Inventory plugin is used against ICIC the ANSIBLE_IP gets set to any of assigned IP addresses for the VM at random. For multi-interfaces VMs we should be able to set the preferred interface to use for ANSIBLE_IP.
about 23 hours ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

Add SMF 119.3 and SMF 119.70 records to IntelliMagic Vision

The new records would be in an Enterprise tool that would be available to Mainframe/Storage technicians
2 days ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Submitted

Configuration file for P2 installations

I propose the inclusion of a configuration file for P2 installations which allows, for example: adding a z/OS connection by default which would allow me to distribute the tool to developers as an installation by Installation Manager allows.
30 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 0 Submitted

HACPEE support on Openshift

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

Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
23 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Submitted

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM definitions.

Provide a way of automatically generating appropriate OSAM and VSAM delete/define definitions for IMS physical database datasets.
29 days ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Submitted

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
3 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration