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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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Improve IEBCOPY performance for PDS to PDS copies

The IBM Software Migration Project Office has customer migrations from CA PDSMAN to IBM products. The performance of IEBCOPY is critical for such migrations.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

GDG base in Z/OS Project perspective

Our users are asking for the possibility to import the gdgbase to a project as resource.Instead of as now the gdg's are disappearing when a new gdg is created and they must import them again.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration

Decision/Branch Level Code Coverage

Currently, line level coverage is the most specific level of code coverage offered. This is comparable to statement coverage on other platforms. However, to really get a more complete indication of the level of coverage achieved by a testing suite...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

ability to throttle connections per client IP

Ability to throttle CM threads from the same IP address. We have some instances where a client grabs large numbers of connections with long timeout duration, that block other users from entering the gateway. If could throttle the number; analogous...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Exploit z/OS specific features to minimise impact of Java security changes to JCE RACF keystores

Why:Following implementation of OSB 8181692, the KeyProtector.java function increased the number of times that keystore data is encrypted from from 20 to 200,000 times. This had the effect of significantly increasing the cost when retrieving the k...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Mass renaming of projects by command line

We need to have a command line for renaming projects in bulk instead of going through Build Configuration and renaming projects one by one.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Compile warning when using COMP-5 larger than 9 digits

When using COMP-5 variables many developers are not aware of the performance impact of using COMP-5 with variables defined longer then 9(9).Therefore we would like a warning added to the rules(nolaxperf) option, that will indicate this, and recomm...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Update CICS SPI INQUIRE CONNECTION to provide ATTACHSEC, SECURITYNAME, BINDSECURITY and USEDFLTUSER fields

We have a customer looking for security related information in connection resource; specifically ATTACHSEC. According to CEDA DEFINE the following fields are available in CICS resource definition for Security: SECURITY SEcurityname ==> ATtachse...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Provide library javax.smartcardio

requires support for javax.smartcardio in IBM JDK 8.
over 4 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Secure the integrity of the installed EKMF software by encryption of the disk

Currently an attack vector might be that somebody manipulates the EKMF Java classes on disk and then waits for an operator/admin with sufficient access rights to use the workstation. The attacker might be able to extract key material by just trans...
over 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation 0 Future consideration

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