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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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Add MASHIST management to CICS Explorer

Now, it is only possible to SUSPEND or RESUME Historical Data Collection thru the WUI or via CMCI command. It would be helpful that CICS Explorer was able to handle (view and update the state) the MASHIST resource.
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Notify or automatically withdraw LCP RECOVER background copy when it ends

Forgetting to ENDCOPY results in eventually running out of SGC captures since the captures involved in the RECOVER remain locked and can't be . Ideally, there would be an additional parameter to specify an automatic ENDCOPY when the background cop...
7 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Add the support of required field in APIS Body

We need to force APIs consummer to provide mandatory fields in the JSON body of an APIS.This is really important for APIS that use a MQ service because in this case we have no way to check fields before the message is PUT in the queue by the servi...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

Add the parameter CPYMBR to the FCH command

We are replacing some PDSMAN programs with File Manager. The best choice is the FCH File Manager function. However, PDSMAN supports multiple members in a list, or multiple member wild card selections in a list. This is supported by the DSC functio...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Make EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

I want program EYU9XSTR to be threadsafe as it will save us an enormous amount of TCB switches.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Completion of Encryption statistics from SMF113 into TDS/iZDS

We started the use of encryption, and we would complete the currently existing informations inside TDS Tables. We need to add the following fields coming from SMF133 subtype 1 CSType 3 :extended counters fom 64 to 127.This should give some materia...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

IzPCA report showing invokers of a given stored procedure

Application teams sometimes need information related to the invokers of a DB2 stored procedure, so we would like to see if IzPCA could provide the list of users ( DB2 authids) that invoke a stored procedure. That is, a report showing a list of DB2...
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Some Help for the Data Lineage

In the list of the thing to exclude for the field expansion report wizard, is it possible to get also the possibility to exclude program like a variable? In the rapport we have redundancy some data extract and make the report heavy (example in the...
7 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

IMS transactions abends info in the e3270ui

We need in the e3270ui a workspace where we could see information about abended transactions and abend details including process region, abend code, transaction name, abend date/time,..
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Descriptive wait reasons for tasks waiting in DB2 or IMS

We would like more information exchanged between CICS and DB2/DBCTL about the status of a task that is considered to be "in-db2" or "in-IMS", so that the wait reason for a task in a DB2 or DBCTL call shows what the task is waiting on.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration