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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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Support outbound transaction starting from mainframe to distribute system

A transaction starts from CICS and calls outbound Web Services which resides in distribute system such as Windows .Net Server(IIS).
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Make available the TMRA dependencies on a maven repository

Some clients cannot manually download dependencies or upload them to artifactory. For those clients like us, we would like a public Maven repository with the TMRA dependecies.
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 0 Future consideration

Preprocessing with UTF-8 characters

Parsing Programs with UTF-8 characters causes us Problems with our preprocessor functions
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Take Vector Registers into account in the Debug Tool's "Registers"-View

I am missing the possibility to view the vector registers when debugging an assembler program in batch using Debug Tool. The "Registers"-View from the "Debug"-Category should make the vector registers available for display and changes in their ful...
about 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 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...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Make upper/lowercase conversion possible in YAML override file.

We are using substrings of symbols (e.g. CICS_APPLID) in our resource overrides. Example (APPLID=XCICO): - urimap: - selector: name: GERARD overrides: path: "/test-{{CICS_APPLID[0::1]}}/of/gerard" This resolves in: /test-X/of/gerard However, most ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 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...
over 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 ...
over 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.
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CL/SuperSession: Change RACROUTE Calls to GLOBAL=YES

*** Note: This is for "CL/SuperSession"; I was unable to locate this product in the drop-down boxes *** Please change RACROUTE calls to use GLOBAL=YES instead of GLOBAL=NO (or provide a new PARMLIB option to control this), so that SAF calls are pr...
about 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

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