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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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return status of each services/api in the zosConnect/apis or zosConnect/services call

Request is to include the "status" or "serviceStatus" in the zosConnect/apis or zosConnect/services call.This avoids having to call the underlying adminUrl or serviceUrl for each api/service to determine its status.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Allow CICS resource security to also add a function component.

Currently, if a user is permitted to a specific resource, they can use that resource regardless of context. An example may be that a user is authorized to write to, or read from a transient data queue as it may form part of an application. I may w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Create a functional entry that displays the CVE's, APARS and programs loaded into the z/TPF operating system

This would be extremely useful for our delivery of internal audit requests relating to CVE vulnerabilities on the z/TPF platform. As discussed in the past a functional entry should display the CVE's, APARs associated with the CVE and programs that...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

DFS3LU00 should allow the user to choose to generate control blocks and statements from the Catalog Staging area

When using DFS3LU00 to generate DBD or PSB source statements or control blocks, only DBDs or PSBs in the active portion of the IMS catalog are considered. There is no way to specify generation from the staging portion of the IMS catalog.
almost 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Future consideration

Use XWBs for MPIF and IPC

In previous exchanges with IBM re: XWB usage, it was noted that MPIF and IPC were not changed via PJ45291 to use XWBs. That being the case, we will not be able to reduce frame usage even after the PJ45291 is applied, which somewhat defeats the pur...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Expose CPSM TDQGBL resource table through the CICS GraphQL API.

I would like to extract global transient data statistics from the CPSM TDQGBL resource table using the GraphQL API. In the past I have extracted these statistics using the CMCI API to query the CICSGlobalTDQueueStatistics resource. Having looked a...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IDz headless Code Coverage daemon support CCS call to locate via "testIds"

The current Code Coverage Service RESTful API only support to locate a result via "result id" which we actually don't know in runtime. What we actually know in runtime after executing a code coverage is the "testIds" So we need the API support to ...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

GDPS CA - Incorporate IIDR Scheduled End option

We currently use IIDR for VSAM for z/OS to replicate CICS VSAM files across two PLEX's under the control of the GDPS Continuous Availability (Active – Active) software. When we do a switch between the two PLEX's we would like to automate the IIDR ...
almost 5 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

TPF DNS CACCHE TTL and CASTOUT

Currently the ZCACH and ZDTCP DNS entries are deficient in providing the ability to search for a hostname in IDNSHOSTNAME Cache and display it's associated TTL TOD value. Suggest that the "z" entries be enhanced to provide the TTL expiration ...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

JSON support for IMS PA DEDB Update Activity report (FPDBURPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS DEDB Update Activity report (DD FPDBURPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

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