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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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IBM MQ Configuration file for SSL to support multiple ciphers

We use a common default MQ SSL Configuration file for all our MQ SSL channels. The IBM limitation is that the MQ configuration file can only have one cipher defined, unlike the HTTP & MONGO SSL Configuration files that support the definition o...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

cazcnfg0: not all config statements accept symbols

in de cazcnfg0 parameter files there are statements where you can use system symbols which is very handy to make this parameter file system independant. But some other statements do not accept system symbols which makes it very confusing. The idea...
over 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Syncron processing of user-defined Workstations (EQQUX0099

User-defined workstations are currently processed asynchronously. The workstation analyzer identifies the operation to be submitted and performs these actions: 1.queues, asynchronously, a submit request to the Data Router task 2.updates the curren...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support for more advanced JCL parsing when recording

When recording a testcase for zUnit the JCL isn't parsed correctly when the original JCL contains a SYSTIN DD with a dataset leaving the user to do some (not always obvious) manual editing of the JCL before being able to do a record. To improve th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

Add zCEE Requester support for text/plain responses

zCEE Requester currently only supports JSON responses. Please add support for text/plain responses.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CDP and USS files group option

Currently the CDP user can set the group option to config the collected scope either Sysplex or Lpar only for Generic VSAM and Sequential data sets. For Generic zFS data streams, this option is not enabled. Could you change it please ? TS014662042...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Enable options to add Stack affinity at URIMAP when usage is define as Client

As per the current setup, we need to define stack affinity in CICS region JCL to make CICS region to use only a particular TCPIP in case URIMAP usage is defined as CLIENT. This setup is restricting CICS not to use other TCPIPs in case of multiple ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Replace Workload Scheduler exits with build in functionality

We want to move away from assembler based product options and modifications to a modern approach with regular parameter files. This approach provides more agility, easier maintenance and easy transparency on used settings. This initiative is not l...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support for EXTERNAL data

zUnit should support data items declared as EXTERNAL. If a data item in COBOL is declared as EXTERNAL it can be used to pass data from a calling program to a subprogram, and therefore should be recorded as if it is a parameter. Also when calling a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

CL/Supersession needs to support TLS

When PAGENT is enabled CL/Supersession does not support TLS
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

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