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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 tolerant reader principle with CICS web services

In various systems the tolerant reader principle as specified by Postel's Law is used as a design principle. Currently CICS will not accept items which are not specified in the current schema of a web service.Please provide a function or parameter...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Group Actions in SA Rest API Server

While most basic functions are available in the SA Rest Operations Server were definitely missing some important ones such as GROUP actions. INGMOVE is a common use within our company for high availability purposes during maintenance. We would lik...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Authentication based on a Client Certificate (SA Operation Rest Server)

The preference of using a certificate to authenticate instead of Basic Authentication like a username and password. For automating purposes you would prefer not to use Basic Authentication and instead use something like a Client Certificate, espec...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

New CICSPlex SM routing algorithm

We are not able to manage our online workload in an efficient way by using the CICSPlex SM Sysplex Optimized Workload Routing. If we use QUEUE/LNQUEUE algorithm, performance objectives defined in WLM are not being taken into consideration for rout...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

Method to allow users to issue CEMT SET yet not CEMT PERFORM

We have promotion software which will be used to issue CEMT S PROG(*) NEWCOPY. In reviewing the RACF resource classes for CEMT, UPDATE access is required to issue CEMT SET. However, it appears that UPDATE access to CEMT also allows CEMT PERFORM. W...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IzWS allow user to add non-existing predecessor which should have more alert on the warning like pop-up warning that required enter to confirm.

IzWS allow user to add non-existing predecessor which should have more alert on the warning like pop-up warning that required enter to confirm. We would like to request if the predecessor job does not exist thenoption1 : to have confirmation with ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Include the packlist in the downloads with HOLDDATA & SMPPTFIN

When using RFNJOBS for downloading the HOLDDATA & SMPPTFIN, it would be ideal to include the packlist with it. Due to the HOLDDATA & SMPPTFIN are compressed or encrypted & not readily readable, the packlist is a quick way to identify t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Shopz 7 Not under consideration

Add Favorites or add the ability to reorganize in the graphs/reports of AD in IDz

While working in AD through IDz, it would be nice to have favorites for a user's top repetitive reports/graphs or the ability to reposition the list of reports/graphs. If a user constantly uses the same reports/graphs, this would be faster for the...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Compiler option to enable / disable DEBUGGING-MODE

To date, the activation of debugging lines, marked with a "D" in column 7, can only be activated / deactivated by intervening at the source code level, by specifying or removing the "WITH DEBUGGING MODE" clause in the Environment Division. We woul...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 13 Not under consideration

Enable the ability to run the COLLECT batch process of different components in parallel.

When a COLLECT process is executed, some DB2 resources are allocated that prevent processes that collect data for different components (CICS, DB2, MVS and so on) from being executed in parallel. If the COLLECT processes of different components cou...
6 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Under review