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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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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...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

protect requests of EQQUSIN%

If a user requests a modify action against the mcp via EQQUSIN% (OPSTAT,SRSTAT,OPINFO,EQQEVCMD,EQQEVPGM), for example doing a job complete, his action is not checked against RACF like it is done when the user does the similiar action via ISPF or P...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Support for IMS transaction name length required

Our site uses variable length IMS transaction names.The current implementation of the API Toolkit with fix PH09920 allows to specify a transaction name that will either be padded with spaces for a maximum length of 8 characters or if the Space Del...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

Special Resource at Application Level

This RFE is opened in conjunction to the old and declined RFE #78363. Special Ressources (SRs) should also be connectable to whole applications (occurences) and not only at operation level.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Single SingOn for HATS WEB connections. We need it for MIDAS Core banking SSO

Problem description: We are using a WebSphere based banking application Midas Bank Fusion (from MISYS). User do connect to WAS using browser. WAS is using IBM-I for authentication and Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) to integrate with 52...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Not under consideration

NOEVENP/NOLXPRF rules suboption. Distinguish between user source program and copy member item definition

To decide to issue a return code 12 or 04 when the IGYDS1348-W/IGYPA3084-W warning occurs, it is necessary to distinguish whether the definition of the data item appears directly in the user source program or was included in the program from a cop...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Capacity figure for LCP captures

Would be good to have a capacity used figure for each LCP capture in the GDPS LCP panel. Would help with capacity planning and also give an idea of the amount of time required for a restore. Could either be capacity per capture or a running total ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future 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

IDZ V14.2.0 Browsing a remote sequential file not possible unlike TSO

In Remote Systems view (z/OS Projects perspective), if I open a remote file to edit it, my colleagues can neither browse nor view this file whereas if they work directly with TSO they can read the file in browse or view mode. IDZ displays a pop-up...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under 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...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

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