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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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    Ability to Add New Application Level User Field to Existing AD in Workload Scheduler

    Description:Currently, when using the ADUSF option, IBM Workload Scheduler creates a new Application Description (AD) with the same name instead of adding the User Field to the existing AD. Additionally, ADUSF requires attaching the user field to ...
    about 24 hours ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

    Support AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications

    Hello IBM, AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications is currently not officially supported by IBM. However, 64-bits support already exist for C applications.Adding support for PL/I only requires simple updates to the CMQEPP copybook. Here is an exa...
    about 19 hours ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    Add DFSESL as an option for FMN1POPT in File Manager for IMS

    Please add DFSESLn as an option in FMN1POPT. This will add DFSESL as a DD statement when using file manager for IMS in BMP mode. This should be the same format as RESLIBn, allowing multiple different DSN's to be concatenated together. This is a re...
    about 1 hour ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

    IZPCA / COGNOS NEW COST REPORTS TFP WITH MONETARY VALUES BASED IN MSU

    Many customers wants to know how much money they are paying by LPAR, WORKLOAD and SERVICE/REPORT CLASS using TFP – Tailored Fit Pricing model. Nowadays, IZPCA/COGNOS has cost RESOURCE ACCOUNTING reports based in monetary values (cost of CPU second...
    about 1 month ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 8 Under review

    Add support for Basic and Bearer Authorization through Authorization header to libserdes, enabling secure authentication against Kafka Registries.

    At the moment the only way for an application to authorize it self towards a Kafka registry using libserdes (part of the Kafka SDK) is by passing the username and password in the URL. This is an unsafe solution and is considered bad security pract...
    19 minutes ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0 Submitted

    Add zoslib to OEF

    zoslib includes many useful C APIs that we would benefit from if it was added, currently we can only get it from zOpen which is more difficult in an enterprise environment
    about 10 hours ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Add functionality to edit HFS/ZFS Files

    Request adding functionality to IBM File Manager to support editing of HFS/ZFS files. Mainframe software is increasing utilizing OMVS/USS for software products. Currently, there are limited options to edit files "in-bulk". File Manager currently s...
    about 15 hours ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

    RSEAPI Add Support to Append Data to Files and Datasets

    Currently there is no API to append to existing files/datasets. PUT /content and/rawContent for MVS and UNIX only replaces the contents. This idea would be to add an optional request header that lets you choose between "replace" and "append" for t...
    about 18 hours ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Submitted

    Setting to disable advanced remote error feedback

    With the advanced problems view integration of DBB User build, the build is automatically equipped with the --errPrefix cli argument for the build framework. Some build framework implementations might not support creating the error feedback file, ...
    1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Future consideration

    Automated check of RSEAPI host component version level

    IBM Developer for z/OS on VS Code should automatically check the RSEAPI host component version level and validate if it is on a supported level. For example when the user is on the Welcome Page, in the prerequisites section: In case RSEAPI is dete...
    1 day ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Submitted

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