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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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    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...
    3 days ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

    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 ...
    4 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Enable End-to-End Transaction Tracing for EntireX → CICS Integration in Instana ZAPM

    Use Case Our organization uses webMethods EntireX adapter to call CICS via ECI protocol. We are implementing Instana for z/OS Application Performance Monitoring (ZAPM) to trace transactions on z/OS and visualize them in the Instana backend. Howeve...
    1 day ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Submitted

    Enhance IMS TM Resource Adapter's setPassword method to handle RACF passphrases

    Currently the IMS TM Resource Adapter has two different methods for setting RACF passwords and for setting RACF passphrases (setPassword and setPasswordPhrase). This causes development and test effort when customers migrate from password to passph...
    1 day ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Submitted

    Implement support for EXEC SQL INCLUDE in HLASM for VS CODE

    The VS Code HLASM extension currently does not support assembler programs that use EXEC SQL INCLUDE. As a result, DBB fails because the SQL include files are not being uploaded to MVS, preventing DBB from processing them. The includes are also not...
    2 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 1 Submitted

    Expand the granularity of the PreSor and PostSor times to be able to determine where in the z/OS Connect process slow response times are actually occurring

    Due to a recent issue we had with a single API in API Provider where we were seeing intermittent very long PostSOR times for the same input client request data which was returning a relatively large response data structure from the SOR whilst othe...
    2 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

    Produce message for NOT STARTED ALERT (EQQE150) even if NOT STARTED ACTION is coded at the same time

    The NOT STARTED ALERT message EQQE150 is currently not produced if the NOT STARTED ACTION is coded at the same time. Some users want to be notified when the NOT STARTED ACTION is performed, hence the interest in having a specific message produced ...
    2 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Under review

    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...
    4 days ago in PL/I Compilers / 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

    Default/global filter expansion value

    When setting up custom filters within the Remote Systems pane, it would be very convenient for there to be a setting to allow you to set the default expansion amount for new filters. Currently, all new filters have an expansion value of 50, so any...
    about 19 hours ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

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