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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
26 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Under review

Support of LCP with physical isolation along with MM4SITE support

The requirement requested in ZGDPS-I-221 for MM4SITE support is useful to allow a region switch without service interruption. Further to that LCP with physical isolation alongside with the MM4SITE support is needed for site already running LCP wit...
1 day ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Provide SMF support for all IMS PA (streaming) services

It will make it safer to provide the possibility for (all) IMS PA reports to use SMF, both from an availability and security perspective, By having CDP (or other product) collect the data from SMF and pass it to the correct subscriber, will only n...
1 day ago in IMS High Performance Load for z/OS / Product functionality 1 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

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...
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

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...
14 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...
19 days ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

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

Portuguese language support

We have an opportunity at Banco Bradesco, which requires that watsonx Assistant for Z be able to interact with users in Portuguese. The expected information for support in Portuguese will probably be in 1H25. Would it be possible to bring this lau...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Add sudo to the OEF

sudo is the ideal way to invoke authorized (superuser) tools under OMVS and should be included with OEF since it isn't provided as part of the IBM z/OS USS set of tools.
about 1 month ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 2 Under review

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