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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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Looking for Multi-Factor Authentication support for SAIOM

I have accounts I support that are looking for SAIOM to support MFA, as some of the regulations/restrictions they are required to adhere to require MFA.
about 2 years ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Future consideration

Display OMEGAMON Global Data Area startup options in the Enhanced 3270

CICS administrators logon to the Omegamon (classic) and use command GLOB GLOB to verify that each CICS regions is using the correct Global Data Area startup options. If the Enhanced 3270 was able to display the Global Data Area options, these admi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Allow typing during application is working

It happens that transactions inside the CICS-application may need more time to finish from time to time. The end user knows the normal response time and starts or continue typing as a moment where the transaction have not finished. In this case th...
about 1 year ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4)

We need to enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4) to complete a job with an error state. Currently, there is no post-EQQMEP1L confirmation panel that requires you to verify a job data before completing your job. Because of ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Origin Data to be passed for DTP and ASYNC flows

For transaction tracking purposes it is important that a transactions has some information about the parent transaction. The ADCB doesn't have information for DTP transactions and some of the ASYNC flows (e..g START with TERMID). The ORIGIN DATA i...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CICS Handling of bad HTTP requests

Hello IBM Support, Security requirements use vulnerability scanners to 'ping' CICS, and these lead to false positives. A scanner may produce an error, that's not really an error...can CICS be enhanced to handle http errors better? Thank youJohn Ca...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enhance zfile tar to include a compression option

zfile tar should include compression to reduce the output for easier archiving and backup. This should take advantage of IBM's hardware compression.
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPFUG - Allow an option for the z/TPF user to change the default load balance behavior for SSL Shared Sessions.

In the current environment the default load balance behavior for SSL shared sessions is to assign an SSL daemon at the time the application CTX (context) is created. All sessions for this application will be assigned to this daemon. This behavior ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Omegamon IMS zIIP exploitation

We use TEPS for detailed monitoring on IMSPlex enviorenment. After a while some of Omegamon adress spaces started to use high CPU. We monitor region occupancy, global lock conflicts, region statistics from TEPS. Since these monitoring functions ca...
over 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Client 1 Future consideration

CICS - Change MCT parameters with online command

Good afternoon, Please check the possibility of chaning the MCT parameter via online command, in flight, without the necessary of stop/start of CICS that is currently needly.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Future consideration