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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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HOD TLS 1.0 Vulnerability

Need TLS 1.2 support for Host On-Demand(HOD) TLS FTP.HOD V11.0.13 does not support this using JSSE.See Service request: 59244499000
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Delivered

Old JRE in Personal Communications

Personal Communications v12.x lays down Java JRE 8.0.0 as a convenience, but there is no mechanism to maintain this version to current standards. JRE installation must be optional during the install (and actually work correctly to not install it i...
about 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Delivered

Provide additional information for E.C.FORMATTIME

The FORMATTIME is able to return a time and date string in RFC3339-format. But this is always returned in UTC and sometimes it might be helpful to have that in local format or a certain timezone. Therefore please add a parameter LOCAL or TIMEZONE(...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Autoinstall for CEE RDO Group programs

Allow the 1600 program definitions in RDO group CEE to be autoinstalled.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Allow multiple Filter Criteria per Column in FA IDz Plug-In

We have a request to allow filtering in FA IDz Plug-in on multiple criteria per Column. For example a Developer is responsible for multiple Applications and would like to see only those and not all available entries. Instead of changing and applyi...
over 2 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

menue manager invocation status until result is sent back, is missing for users

After invoking an action through menu manager, the user does not get any feedback if IDz accepted the request and tends to invoke the same action twice. We need a way to inform user that the request is in progress.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Explorer perspectives/plug ins need to fully support all interfaces

If CICS Explorer is going to be the strategic direction for managing CICS, then it must fully support all capabilities of the various 'other' management tools.For example, today even with Explorer 5.1 it is not possible from the SM Administration ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

Add support of LIKE in the ENTRY declaration (to reuse the structure of the data declaration)

Today changes in the parameters to an external entry must always be coded twice, in the entry declaration as well as in the data declaration. To avoid this redundancy we would like to have LIKE available to use in the entry declaration, so that we...
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

add an IQIBUTIL "SYNC" type function

add function to delete target data set members that do not exist in the source data set.
about 7 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Allow defined allocate in AREA

Since many releases, Enterprise PL/I allows the allocation of defined amounts of heap using the "ALLOCATE" builtin, to quote the manual: ALLOCATE allocates storage of size n in heap storage and returns the pointer to the allocated storage. It woul...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered