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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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Allow for JSON based Identity Propagation

Update CICS TG RAR to support container-based authentication from OpenLiberty that utilized JWT/Bearer token support. If a client presents JWT and this JWT is validated by the OpenLiberty runtime via feature OIDC with JWT: OpenID Connect Client 1....
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add High Water Mark indicator of a Storage Group or a Volume in ZPCA tables

High Water Mark indicator will be useful for our stockage team to find out if a Storage Group or a Volume is big enough.
6 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Customers would like to be able to 'extract' metric listing from within IntelliMagic

The search has good capability to cross reference and find reports and fields (metrics) that IntelliMagic reports on, but since there are so many variables available in the database and tables, customers would like to see all of them in one place....
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

ASID needed as condition item in IF-THEN statement

With the IF-THEN statement we often process messages that are intercepted by NetView Automation. To evaluate the message, there are several condition items available. However, if a specific task that has been started several times under the same j...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Submitted

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor

Please consider PL/I MACRO support for IBM Z Open Editor. We are considering modernizing our development environment for PL/I programs. We are particularly interested in VSCode, which is lightweight and used by many developers, and would like to u...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

Use 64-bit storage for OTMA TPIPEs

Nowadays OTMA is one of the most important pieces in IMS. Given the big range of TCP/IP clients is quite difficult to manage OTMA TPIPEs in a complex scenario. Although the latest development enhancements are more than welcome, they aren't fixing ...
about 1 month ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

Feature to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER, EXPORTEr

We don´t have the option to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER and EXPORTER in the UKO. It would be interestig to have this feature
about 1 month ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Show a warning on the chart when all data is not available to span the selection that the user specified.

It is a little confusing if a customer/user specifies a range that is not available in the data base (for retention reasons for example). A warning would inform them that they are not looking at all the data that they requested.
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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