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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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New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions. Repeated.....

We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That increases the importance for protection of our user scripts. User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.If you have access to execute ...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

QRadar/SIEM integration

EKMF Web must generate security related events that can be consumed by IBM QRadar similar third-party SIEM systems. At minimum, these events must include- Logons, both success and failure- logoffs, when performed by a user, logoffs due to timout m...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Future consideration

z/OS Connect to support the token being returned from the authorization server in a custom field in an OAuth 2.0 flow

We are using the z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support to obtain an access token from our EUA Authorization server. This retrieves the access token from the “access_token” field of the JSON response, as per the OAuth 2.0 specification. In the response th...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

IDz/Debugger: Debug Profile shall resolve procedures

Hi IBM, IDz / Debugger is not able to resolve procedures within Debug Profiles. This leads to wild guessing the correct step to be debugged within a procedure, that has more than one step and so either the first step will be tried to debug or you ...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Time stamp in Canlog should be local time like Netlog

The Canzlog records records using the GMT/UMT time stamp. The Local offset is added after when browsing the logs. Would need to understand the benefit of storing the time in GMT/UMT as opposed to Local.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

ZOS Connect EE : No CPU in SMF reccords

There no CPU consumption in SMF records , 120-11 or 123-1. This mandatory for us to get this value in statistic to be able to monitor easily the api requests.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Future consideration

Bring SupportPac CS04 / wsbind utility into base support

SupportPac CS04, the wsbind utility, is current as-is and its functionality should be brought into base CICS support and managed between releases.
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enable the ability to run the COLLECT batch process of different components in parallel.

When a COLLECT process is executed, some DB2 resources are allocated that prevent processes that collect data for different components (CICS, DB2, MVS and so on) from being executed in parallel. If the COLLECT processes of different components cou...
5 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review

Provide support for remote libraries in the local preprocessors in IDz

(This idea was originally logged as case: TS009687272) We are using GIT repositories for developing Cobol and PL/1 sources in IDz. Because these sources reside in the locally cloned repositories or editors can only use local property groups for r...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Add the hability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

As of now, when the API we call return a dynamical JSON array, we need to declare a COBOL array with a large number of occurences in order to be sure to retrieve all the data with the JSON PARSE statements. But, in most cases, the json array will ...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration