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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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Allow the hostname specified in Liberty's server.env file to map to "localhost"

When performing DR testing we use different DNS names for the LPARs hosing EKMF. As part of each test we have to change the hostname in server.env to the DR DNS name. To alleviate this need it would be nice if Liberty would allow the hostname to b...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

Improve reporting within the UI to allow users to select various report criteria

We would like to have the ability to query keys and templates within EKMF Web using a variety of scenarios and have the ability to generate/export a report. THe report could be in CSV or HTML format. The query can probably be achieved using dynami...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Delivered

When packaging PTFs for an existing EKMF-Web instance, ensure the install does not reset the permission bits on EKMF directories (the install copied in a complete replacement of directories with default settings)

When we upgraded to v2.1.0.3, the permissions set on the EKMF directories were reset back to the default settings. At this point only the owner ad READ access to the directories and we had to manually set permissions back to what we were using pri...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 4 Delivered

Need a way to determine CICS SIT parms after startup.

For debugging new installations or for problem determination at any time, it would be very convenient to determine after CICS/TS startup what cics tables suffixes and DHFSIT parameters were being used for this execution of CICS. This could be done...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Format CICS Monitoring Data

In CICS region dumps the data from the monitoring domain is easily locatable with Fault Analyzer via "Monitoring Transaction Summary" and there address of TMA. But currently FA only displays DFHMNTDS unformated as normal storage display.FA should ...
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

CICS TCPIPSERVICE - RETRY needed

When doing an IPL, sometimes CICS is started before TCP/IP is fully up and running. This results in TCPIPSERVICEs being unable to start.--- This RFE is to add two parameters to the TCPIPSERVICE definition:1. RETRY_COUNT to specify how many times C...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CTS 5.4 EXCI need BROWSE Container function

cics V5.4 delivers long anticipated channel and containers over EXCI. While this is new ground for batch applications, we have existing cics applications which deliver a set of containers to ECI c# and Java client code, via cics transaction gatewa...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

When using "CA7 job trigger flow", trigger path is missing

TD Bank evaluated ADDI v5.1.0.3 - When customer is using the option "CA7 job trigger flow", they found that for some jobs it doesn't show a trigger path (No Schedule ID available to be selected)

RDz Code Review - Baseline capability is needed with automated code review so that 'legacy code' errors can be ignored.

RDz Code Review - Baseline capability is needed with automated code review so that 'legacy code' errors can be ignored.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

ABO Return Code

ABO ends a job with RC 8 (which means an ERROR ) if at least one module could not be optimized. Because it is more or less normal that ABO can not optimize each module it catches by the given directive a RC 4 (WARNING) should be sufficient. Sugges...
about 7 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 3 Delivered