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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 to run ZVDT on z/VM based Linux on Z Systems

The customer wants to use ZVDT on Linux on Z guests, which run on z/VM. Please make this scenario officially supported.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Runtime metrics collection load action analysis

This idea builds upon idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/TPF-I-1005 Loadset history in Runtime Metrics Collection. When a loadset activation or deactivation command occurs, provide an analysis that compares the resources used p...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 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...
about 6 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound Web Services which resides in distribute system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

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.
about 3 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

Make available the TMRA dependencies on a maven repository

Some clients cannot manually download dependencies or upload them to artifactory. For those clients like us, we would like a public Maven repository with the TMRA dependecies.
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 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...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 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

Make upper/lowercase conversion possible in YAML override file.

We are using substrings of symbols (e.g. CICS_APPLID) in our resource overrides. Example (APPLID=XCICO): - urimap: - selector: name: GERARD overrides: path: "/test-{{CICS_APPLID[0::1]}}/of/gerard" This resolves in: /test-X/of/gerard However, most ...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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

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