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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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Provide meaningful error messages for z/OS Connect and API toolkit problems

Currently z/OS Connect provides for a lot of configuration errors, RACF and Unix System Services problems neither an error message in the JES Job Log nor an error message in the messages.log. Often the only way to get an impression of what may be ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Possibility to filter z/OS syslog, in order to send only selected messages to subscriber

Customer requested the possibility to filter log messages from z/OS syslog, in order to send only desired MSGids to a subscriber instead of managing all the stream.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

Update ZDHST with NVP and ECB Owner Data

As we continue to increase our use of Name-Value Pairs(NVPs) for troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the NVP area has become crucial to rapidly troubleshoot and resolve test and production issues. Most of our dumps ...
6 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

CICS region id and CICS default id should not be same .

Hi , In CICS We will have CICS REGION id and CICS Default id and, both id should be used differently , and Security access also have to be different. in current scenario in SIT DFLTUSER={CICSUSER|userid} , if we code DFLTUSER=CICREGID ( where DFLT...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Make it possible to send an empty body with other http response code then 204 (no content)

Seems that when you use http response code other than 204 and you remove the body in your mapping that there is always a body of the tags above.It should be possible to define whether you want a body or not. For example: we want to use 202 without...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Remove parent tags from input and output bodies

When you make a API with an input body (JSON), you always have to give the parent tags of the service instead to those that really are related to the content of what you want.Same for the output body (JSON), where those parent tags are always show...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Functionality already exists

Compiler support for +80 character lines

With the release of the IBM Z Open Editor for Visual Studio Code, more IBM COBOL is edited in an editor not limited by 80 characters.We request an option to the z/OS COBOL compiler, to be able to read COBOL code without a limit of 80 characters.An...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Be able to issue commands to all IMS systems in a plex at the same time

In the e3270ui need a workspace that allow us to issue commands to all IMS in a IMSPLEX. With the KIPCMD workspace we can only send commands to a given IMS.
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enhance INITCHECK so it catches the use of uninitialized indexes in SEARCH statements

The frequent programming error of forgetting to set an index before a SEARCH is not being detected by INITCHECK. In the following example program, the index U150-ACT-IND-IDX is erroneously not set before the SEARCH U150-TRANX-ACT-IND-DATA line. Wi...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration