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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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Support special characters in uri parameters

Support special characters in uri parameters for a GET request. The parameters may contain special characters - examples '+', '-' and '*'. These are encoded/escaped in the uri but zOS Connect should decode them back to the original value before po...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Delivered

New LE TEST suboption to inhibit DT MFI for RDz users

Currently the LE TEST runtime parameter is used to trigger Debug Tool testing, both for mainframe interface (MFI) and remote clients like Rational Developer for System z (RDz). We do not use Debug Tool's MFI. For many years our mainframe developer...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 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 ...
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

Improve IMS catalog retention criteria / IMS catalog record purge utility

Currently there is no way to clean up the IMS catalog with the IMS catalog record purge utility without having a risk to loose an active catalog instance, because you can only specify IMS catalog retention criteria in the IMS PROCLIB DFSDFxxx memb...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Delivered

CEX will block RACF sign on attempts after repeated failures for logon id revoked

We have remote devices that execute a programmatic script to issue a logon attempt via IMS Connect. Many times these IDs have been revoked or are obsolete. When the script receives a RACF failure, the signon attempt will be continually retried (at...
over 2 years ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

controll debug tool CICS trace entries

customer has a tool which analyzes AP trace entries . Our DT entries are diluting the report . It would be very helpfull if we could switch on and off the trace creation
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Delivered

Support enhanced security when authenticating users with SAF Security API

The current SAF Security API does not support specifying the APPLID for the PlatformUser.authenticate method. Supporting the __passwd_applid() function will allow Program Control security rules to be utilzied. See documentation: https://www.ibm.co...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

URT license tracking for Open XLC/C++ v17

AIX XLC/C++ licenses purchased from IBM are user based (shared or named). The external auditors appointed by IBM, request/collect several times per year the URT statistics (supported until XLC/C++ v16) to check license compliancy. With Open XlC/C+...
over 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

support of WRITE JOURNALNAME()

CICS JOURNAL is an obsolete and undocumented command, it's preferable to have the CICS WRITE JOURNALNAME command.
almost 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

Support of DFHWS2LS, support of multiple CONTAINERs.

To support Based64, or variable length strings or variable occurs, the IBM solution (used by EPO) is to modify manually the WSDL gnerated by DFHLS2WS and then regenrate the WSBIND from the modified WSDL using DFHWS2LS.
almost 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Delivered

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