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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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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

Omegamon z/OS - Sum of z/OS fields

We use some panels in Omegamon TEP to monitor our environment, specifically the CP consumption on our z14. We have a problem understanding the total machine consumption because the physical % CP and overhead % are separated and we can't put them t...
about 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Support for Elliptic Curves x448 and x25519 in Java 8 SDK for z/OS.

Java 8 is globally used by a number of applications in Traditional zWebSphere v8.5 and v9.0, the company standard requires the latest elliptic curves to secure applications externally and internally.
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

REDEFINES Behavior: Requirement to support multiple redefinitions on input (request)

We are requesting support of JSON draft 4 schema within z/OS Connect, with "anyOf" & "oneOf" as it applies to REDEFINES support in IMS and CICS. Requirement: We have a requirement to support multiple redefinitions on input (request). The attac...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Future consideration

Menu Manager output dialog persistence

Allow user to perform other activities in IDz while the Menu Manager output dialog is displayed. Currently, if there are results shown in the output dialog that the user needs to reference for other activities, users need to close the dialog befor...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer Event binding editor import data structure should support all valid COBOL picture strings

CICS Explorer 5.5 Event Binding editor cannot successfully import a COBOL language structure that contains an embedded '.' (decimal point) character in a zoned decimal field. Example:05 WS-COST PIC ZZZ.99.Such a picture string is valid in COBOL 6 ...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

More granularity to secure CP work station over and above work station name.

We would like more granularity regarding the available sub-resources for altering CP work station attributes. The current level of protection is the work station name only.
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow limited scope surrogate permissions for CICS

Allow for a surrogate permission, such as *.DFHSTART with access of READ, to be limited in scope to a CICS transaction, program, or both. Such granularity in allowing a surrogate permission is not available today.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API same IDEA opened for CICS TX

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command ...
over 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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