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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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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

Allow using regular expression matching in system/application policy/event filtering

Allowing the use of regular expression matching in all types of policy/event filtering rules would significantly enhance the ability to create filtering criteria specific to targeted work.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Please improve IZPCA CP Cognos Reports for large z/OS environments

The IZPCA Cognos CP reports generally do not work well for a large zSeries environment. We had a meeting with you and demonstrated areas for improvement. Here are a couple of the key areas: Include an option to select the CEC names in CEC level re...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavors of SQL (T-SQL AND Oracle SQL). Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enable File manager in IDZ to work with MFA enabled

IDZ is unable to use file manager to copy files between sysplex /lpars when MFA is enabled. See Sev2 Case TS016140826 for additional info.
6 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include User Fields in DWC Monitor Workload job column.

We need to have a column in DWC with the user field enabled in Monitor Workload (job and critical job). This column should be editable to write and see comments about the job manage. In ISPF pannel this field can enable in handling error pannel, s...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 3 Future consideration

Allow CICS to use 2GIG page frames

Hi, We are a heavy users of CICS Data tables. We load millions of records in many regions to Data tables. We observed that CICS uses all the real memory(4TB per Lpar limit) but still couldn't load all the data we would want. We then reached IBM C...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

The ability to call an OSGI Java Program from z/OS Connect

it would be great to be able to make a API using OSGI through CICS instead of having to set up a middle man PL/I or COBOL program to make this call. There are a lot of use cases, PassTickets being one of them, that work better in Java but in order...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

When an operation is restarted, nothing currently in the EQQAUDIT report or in the EQQMLOG documents what TYPE of restart command was used (RERUN, RC, SJR, FSR, FJR, etc) and what type of restart (STEP restart, JOB restart) and the selected step for the restart (if any). This information would be useful in troubleshooting issues with restart.

An incorrect restart of an operation (restarted from wrong step, restarted with wrong type of restart command) can cause a lot of problems in an operational zWS environment. There is currently no way to tell what type of restart was done from the ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support the GOHOME procedures with C devices in a pending.xd.c status

We would like GDPS to support Support the GOHOME procedures with C devices in a pending.xd.c status. See TS003602059 for detail.
over 4 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

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