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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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Automatic acquire for IPIC HA connections

We connected a CICS client in a sysplex to a cluster of TORs in another sysplex with IPIC HA. When one of the TORs fails for any reason, the connection with the other TOR is not automatically acquired. We had to implement an automation routine to ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Explorer SSL click box option for CTG Explorer Connection - utilizing AT-TLS into CTG

As CICS Explorer implements, Provide SSL Click box for the Stats API CTG connection, in Explorer. The Company site uses At-TLS on z/OS; the Company is looking at requiring all connections to use SSL. Explorer SSL connection to the CTG would be tra...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

DBCS support for IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics

IZDS V1.9 provides Japanese panel and report samples. Please add the same support for IZPCA V3.1.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

CICS TG Connection factory override for transaction level

At V8.1 we moved from providing 2 resource adapters, to providing one. In that move the ra.xml was changed to be minimal and the parameters used for the connection factory were implemented using annotations. The ra.xml is populated from the connec...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Future consideration

Missing functions in COBOL

To determine the size of an array, most programmers use a constant and check the index against the constant. As an alternative compiler option SSRANGE can be used, which is not very performant.It might be a good choice to have functions which retu...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Code folding in Cobol Editor

Provide code folding feature in the cobol editor. This means there is an ability to hide from view all the statements between an IF and its matching END-IF or ELSE as the case maybe. Also could apply to EVALUATE/WHEN.
about 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Perform ITM/Omegamon actions in SMU

It is useful to have a possibility to perform ITM actions (such as cancelling CICS transactions and DB2 threads) in SMU. Of course, this will then have to be done under the userid of the user, so that everything is neatly arranged via the existin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

GUI usability improvements for UKO

We need to provide the UKO authorisation roles to a group of users with little knowledge of key management. They need a tool that is easy and intuitive to use. So the GUI needs to be clearer. I think it would be very useful if users of the UKO GUI...
6 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

For the initonly option, add the capability to have JCL generated using pgm=HPSCMAIN when the DB has multiple DSGs.

The current init process only allows for fast path and full function db initialization if only one dsg and a primary index is associated with the database. Our team has several applications that have dbs that need to be initialized in the event of...
about 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 3 Future consideration

Add an action Character to start a Session without a Init Dialog

Add an additional Action Character in CL/Supersession to start a Application Session without using the defined Initial Dialog.
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration