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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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Encrypting member in IWSz EQQPARM dataset without dynamically calling EQQBEX

In order for no one to be able to retrieve userIDs/Passwords from member in EQQPARM dataset containing userIDs and passwords for controlling access between IWSz and zCentric IWS-agent on distributed platform this dataset needs to be encrypted. How...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

JCE Provider support for IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services PKCS#11

IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Crypto Services (HPCS) is a premium Key Management System with a Cloud HSM that is FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certified. HPCS is used as a backend HSM for several ISV products like Hashicorp Vault, Fujitsu Enterprise PostgreSQL, F5...
about 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

By default, disable activation of the operation user field “SUBJOB USER”.

introducing a feature like this with an APAR can easily go unnoticed. This could lead to a huge security breach, giving everyone the power to submit a job under ANYONES authority, if not protected by RACF using the user field to specifie the job s...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

LOGICAL PROCESSORS EFFECTIVE value to be reported by Omegamon

My Team receive alerts when CF CPU Busy times reaches a determined threshold. After Upgrade from z12 to z14, with option DYNDISP=THIN, we noticed a very considerable increase in the CPU consumption of shared CF processor.With THIN option, processo...
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Reset Threshold and interval setting in Netview Automaion table

The THRESHOLD and Interval conditions in the Netview automation table are very useful functions for throttling and isolating specific occurrences that should be automated on. Would like a means of resetting these values when certain conditions are...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Add additional statistics to the DLRACCT stats area

Adding additional metrics to the DLRACCT data area will provide better insight into where units of work are spending time and help identify bottlenecks. Currently, field DLRESAF provides a total number of ESAF Normal calls. Would like to see this ...
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

PL/I compiler for Linux (or Windows)

Besides z/OS and AIX the PL/I compiler was also available for Windows several years ago. This allowed us to use nearly the same source on z/OS and on Windows. We used the PL/I preprocessor to adapt the source for both systems. Instead of Windows a...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration

IMS 15 Connection Pooling number of threads

If you use connection pooling you can not see how many theards were used during the lifetime of a region. Was I already close to my 50 threads? It would be helpful if at the end of a region life in the region statistics the number of used threads ...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Option CONTROLLINGSYSTEM for NO_DASD env.

Since GDPS V4R1 with the new NO_DASD GDPSMODE it's recommended to set the GEOPLEX option CONTROLLINGSYSTEM to '1'. If no KSYS is defined you have to define a Dummy system.This is not user-friendly because the user see always that (Dummy)-system in...
over 5 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Enhance Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) to support 62x160 screen size in IDZ v16

Please support 62x160 screen size in Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDZ v16. Users can use this screen size in Host Emulator before in IDZ v15, however this screen size didn't support in IDZ v16 RCE. We have a wide number of ISPF applications...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

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