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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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Support data compression in the z/TPFDF product (TPFUG Requirement)

Support subfile data compression/decompression with option to compress the entire subfile or selected Lrecs.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

User defined constants

Implement user defined constants using the COBOL Standard "Constant entry".
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

CPSM WLM Enhancement

Customer needs an enhancement to the CPSM WLM Algorithm in order to improve the workload among the targets. The customer has a single CICSPlex running across two Sysplexes. The environment is large enough that it not possible to merge the existing...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support EQQMINOx to be invoked via LIBDEF (run zWS dialogs for different versions in parallel)

Unfortunately EQQMINOx is NOT supported to be invoked via LIBDEF because of the way that EQQMINOx is loaded -- there is an old DOC APAR concerning this which is STILL true even today-APAR= PK53014 SER= DD DOCLIBDEF FOR ISPLLIB DOES NOT WORK FOR LO...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

AD - Representing DL1 call graph/DB's in different annotation.

If common DL-1 service module “pgm-x’ having CBLTDLI is called by ‘pgm-1’ , ‘pgm-2’, ‘pgm-3’ for several business reasons, finally at the end AD generates 3 different call arrows towards different databases for same physical call in the service mo...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Running Distributed Gateway on zCX

Having Distributed Gateway running on zCX can help look into this solution a whole for Z. And there a much high processing power and more resources on Z than running on Kubernetes, it can help supporting huge transaction volumes for Mainframe appl...
11 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

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

Enhance API Requester resilience

To improve API Requester resilence with a tactic similar to Circuit Breaker pattern
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

KCPTASH view limitation

In the KCPTASH view, when we select a task that was activated by a channel/IP port on a region, the Related section does not display the external IP address/port that activated the task For further questions, please get in touch with Nicola Giangi...
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Add a site defined Change Package Menu Option to trigger User Defined function/process.

Need a site defined change package menu option to trigger an immediate ISPF program (say Rexx) or another custom Exit Routine to perform site required checks - e.g. check JES queue and cancel scheduled future jobs.
6 months ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Planned for future release

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