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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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Create a new compiler option, SSCHECK, to validate the value of subscripts used in table references

The compiler is able to catch the situation where a subscript for a table reference is hard-coded as zero. For example: 000037 DISPLAY "W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) = <" W-VALEUR-O2(0 J) '>'results in this compiler error:37 IGYPS2017-E "0" was found as ...
10 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

Audit IWS service functions

Nearly all service functions in IWS dialog selection 9 are critical to business or at least can be in case of misuse or inattentiveness. So, as a consequence, it is necessary to audit all the following functions:- Deactivate job submission: MLOG c...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Change EQQACTR1 - Show ZIIP instead of PG

The EXIT EQQACTR1 writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics CPU usage is shown. But there isn't any option to see how much zIIP time the job uses. zIIP time is also a SMF record 30 field. It would be useful to show zIIP usage as well i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CICS Liberty Profile support on zAPM Connect

zAPM is commonly deployed in our environment for end-to-end transaction tracking from frontend to mainframe application including CICS & MQ related. However currently there is no support for JAVA application in CICS Liberty Profile which limit...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 2 Future consideration

Sysplex proxy designation in a larger Omegamon environment

An Omegamon RTEMS requirement is that the Plexview and Sysplex proxy TEMS should be at the highest maintenance level in the z/OS Sysplex environment. But because the first RTEMS available in a Sysplex is automatically made the Sysplex (and possibl...
almost 3 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

LDAP authentication on HOD Licence Manager

Add the possibility to configure Host On Demand Licence Manager to use LDAP as authentication method. Adding options of Administrator and Monitor roles based on LDAP groups.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

Right Quick Fix or right annotation using Real-time Syntax Checking for REMARKS paragraph

In very old Cobol programs migrated to SDP with REMARKS paragraph in IDENTIFICATION DIVISION: A warning icon with a light bulb icon are displayed on the REMARKS paragraph. A Quick Fix is available when the cursor is placed over “REMARKS” but IDZ p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Please provider an Openshift version of the container. Docker / Podman are not permitted technology at the Bank.

Please provider an Openshift version of the container. Docker / Podman are not permitted technology at the Bank. This is the only way we will be able to run ADDI containerized.
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Future consideration

Provide code to allow customers to send events to applications via REST API

This would provide a fully supported way for customers using IBM Z System Automation to interface with applications running on z/OS, or other platforms using REST. This would avoid the need for customers to create their own bespoke scripts. It sho...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Bypass DFHH0414 Health Check for a CMAS

In CICS/TS v6.1 section "Setting up a CICSPlex SM address space (CMAS)" the manual : XCMD=NO : For a CMAS you must specify NO for CICS commands. But after the v6.1 CMAS is started, there is a DFHH0414 message in health check IBMCICS/CICS_REGION_CO...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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