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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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Pass JWT payload (the claims) to a service provider of all sub-systems.

We want to use OAuth and JWT Access Tokens to authenticate and identify consumers of our APIs with z/OS Connect. A previous RFE was submitted and implemented that ensured JWT token is valid (signature & expiry check) and returns HTTP status co...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

Print the NAF database using KLS@NAF while Supersession proc is Running

Using Supersessions v2.1, I would like to print the NAF database using KLS@NAF while the Supersession proc is running. Super is writing NAF records to a sequential dataset. The KLS@NAF JCL is attempting to read the same which results in the enqueu...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

VPCEQURY HS command change to unnecessary the authority for issuing HYPERSW

VPCEQURY is GDPS Query Services command. Customer thought it is just query and doesn’t grant higher authority to their operator for issuing the commands such as HYPERSW. This is reasonable in terms of security, because the commands that require hi...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Delivered

Add user exit to the ZCPYS zFunction command code to allow the user to set global/switches for utilities active

By inserting a USER EXIT prior to ( and following ) activating a ZCPYS FC FLASH or ZPCYS SGC BACKUP, we can check to ensure that there are no other system critical utilities that are running that may be impacted by the resource intensive Flash/SGC...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

missin jcl procstep information in the RDz

in ispf sdsf a column procstep is shown in the table. this information is missing in the RDz. in some cases that leads to datasets in the jes output you can not distinguish from each other. witch dataset is from witch step in the proc?
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Delivered

ARInvokeHandler sets the Accept to always be MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON this needs to be configurable

An external API provider uses the Accept/Content headers for versioning. We have set the zconbt property ignoreMIMETypeCheck=true which allows the ARA build to complete. However when driving the API requester we get a 406 response as zOS Connect s...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

More functionality to JES "browser" enhancements

Add more functions to the Jes browser in IDz. 1) Not able to see CPU time when using "show in table"2) We want to see the Syslog3) When looking at an sysout and hovering over a dataset it would be nice to be able to "jump" to that dataset. (clicka...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered

Add new attributes to the TITLE option

The TITLE option of the OPEN statement supports only a subset of the attributes offered by BPXWDYN.We need support for the following extra attributes: CLOSE (free dataset on close)RELEASE (release unused space on close)RECORG(LS) (create a VSAM LS...
almost 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Enable TEST(SEPARATE) support for z/OS Debugger Code Coverage code

Enable support for TEST(SEPARATE) in the z/OS Debugger Version 14 R1M6 Code Coverage code for Enterprise COBOL z/OS Version 6.2 applications.
about 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enhance EXPIRY processing TS-queues performance

You can use a TSMODEL to set an EXPIRY on a TS-queue.If you install such a TSMODEL in CICS, then CICS will initiate a SCAN process, that will scan main/auxilary and CF-TS-Pools for queues that has expired.This scan process will run in all cics reg...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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