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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 CICS resource security to also add a function component.

Currently, if a user is permitted to a specific resource, they can use that resource regardless of context. An example may be that a user is authorized to write to, or read from a transient data queue as it may form part of an application. I may w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Create a functional entry that displays the CVE's, APARS and programs loaded into the z/TPF operating system

This would be extremely useful for our delivery of internal audit requests relating to CVE vulnerabilities on the z/TPF platform. As discussed in the past a functional entry should display the CVE's, APARs associated with the CVE and programs that...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Expose CPSM TDQGBL resource table through the CICS GraphQL API.

I would like to extract global transient data statistics from the CPSM TDQGBL resource table using the GraphQL API. In the past I have extracted these statistics using the CMCI API to query the CICSGlobalTDQueueStatistics resource. Having looked a...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IDz headless Code Coverage daemon support CCS call to locate via "testIds"

The current Code Coverage Service RESTful API only support to locate a result via "result id" which we actually don't know in runtime. What we actually know in runtime after executing a code coverage is the "testIds" So we need the API support to ...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Logrec / EREP recovery process needs to be reworked

System Automation provides a means to recover logrec via the following 4 message: IFB040I SYS1.LOGREC AREA IS FULL, hh.mm.ssIFB060E SYS1.LOGREC NEAR FULLIFB080E LOGREC DATA SET NEAR FULL, DSN=dsnameIFB081I LOGREC DATA SET IS FULL,hh.mm.ss, DSN=dsn...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Action Command should have information in the SYSLOG about the command and it's executer (userid)

All action commands like CANCEL should list some information about the person, who actually enters the command.This request applies to all system commands you can send in e3270UI as well as to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS). It is impo...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

public Compare API for plugin usage

See case TS002883929, currently there is no public IDz API for opening a compare editor in the IDz client while this functionality does already exist(when you select two datasets in the Remote Systems view and select the 'Compare With > Each Ot...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

JSON support for IMS PA DEDB Update Activity report (FPDBURPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS DEDB Update Activity report (DD FPDBURPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to ...
over 1 year ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enable the transmission of chained certificates through a configuration option

The current SSL processing for InetD transmits the first certificate contained in the designated certificate file. Provide an SSL configuration option for InetD, MQ, High-speed connector, etc. to also transmit any chained certificates contained in...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

IDZ default Property Group values

We need the posibility in idz to set property group default values (for all values of a property group) in the eclipse properties without having any MVS project. This mean: If someone is editing a pl/1 source and the source is not associated with ...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration