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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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CICS Explorer - enable item count range selection in filter views

Enable the Explorer filter mechanism to select item counts in resources such as temporary storage in a range. For example, greater than, less than a selected value
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

API mapping enhanced mapping: simple arithmetic

Extend the mapping capability provided in the API Toolkit for APIs to include simple arithmetic operations.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Application performance analysis tooling

Performance analysis (run-time) tools are required to identify performance bottlenecks & other critical statistics early in the software development life cycle where they are cheaper to find & fix. They help developers tune an application ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Passwords encryption and mask for keystore and truststore

We define keystore and truststore in startServer.bat in AD services, including batch server, cross application, mainframe project, manual resolution, and search service, and orientdb configuration. Currently we need to enter a plain text password ...

IP and Port save list on CM main panel

Would be helpful if there is an option to save IP and Port configuration details of CM per Lpar. This will be very helpful when we managing multiple CM configurations/servers from single CM image.
over 4 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

JCics Maven Repository

Our Installation is RDZ 9.0, RAD 9.0 and Datastudio 4.x. We want to use Java in cics together with common Java Librarys like Primefaces to build Liberty JSF Pages. This librarys all depend on maven, which is today state of the art an makes life ju...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Remote System Explorer management of certificates

When using an encrypted connection to the host, Remote System Explorer (RSE) prompts users to accept certificates that have not already been added to the preferences in Remote Systems> SSL/TLS, see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/explorer-for-zos/3...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Fault Analyser - Cobol 6.1 Dwarf + Side File

For Cobol v6.1 programs, when not in debug mode, we use compile options NOTEST(DWARF),NOSTGOPT,OPTIMIZE(2) and this allows FA to give only the line no of a failing statement. We would like FA to give us the actual failing source statement plus var...
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Extent remote resource API to set login parameters

Please extent the remote resource API to set parameters (login procedure, account number, groupid, region size) for the Interactive ISPF gateway programmatically.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Allow more flexible BUNDLE definitions

BUNDLE definitions at present time do not allow to use relative paths or system variables to be specified in the path
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered