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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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Dedicated Timeout Parm for WEB CONVERSE/WEB RECEIVE

We currently use WEB CONVERSE to get data back from remote services via HTTP. We have run into issues whereby system failures on the destination side will not send a response resulting in the CICS task to indefinitely wait until intervention occur...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Accurately normalize CPUsec reporting in the RAF component

CPUsec reporting in the Resource Accounting Feature does not differentiate between GCP and zIIP processors. For customers that run zIIP processors in their environment, RAF records CPUsec equally, regardless of processor type, and RAF only applies...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enhance SSL diagnosis

Recently we had a rouge SSL client application not completing the connect SSL handshake. This tied up all out threads in the procs that INET port was defined to. This affect all other port assigned to those procs, and affected other users. More de...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Capacity figure for LCP captures

Would be good to have a capacity used figure for each LCP capture in the GDPS LCP panel. Would help with capacity planning and also give an idea of the amount of time required for a restore. Could either be capacity per capture or a running total ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Specify Mirror transid when MQ Bridge DPLs is implemented

When the cics mq bridge is used in DPL mode , the program embedded in the mq message is executed ( generally in a TOR ). If this program is defined as remote ( with dynamic parm set to yes ) , it will be executed in a AOR with the mirror transacti...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

CTG daemon should do self-check and cleanup IPC queue regularly

Customer think the CTG daemon should do self-check and clean up the IPC message queue regularly
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Include 3270port in the devmap file

Since ZVDT allows for multiple instances running on the same Linux on Z LPAR, the default 3270port entry was removed, as multiple instances would be unable to share the same port.However, having the port is critical when debugging IPL related issu...
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Implement support for Deleting / Renaming RCE host sessions

When performing Window->Editor->Clone on a RCE session it will duplicate the current RCE session and you can name the new session what ever you like. This can be done several times to create multiple RCE sessions. The next time a user opens ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Next Word and Prev Word should not stop on dashes in variable names in the COBOL editor

New Word (Ctrl+Right) and Prev Word (Ctrl+Left) should not stop at the dashes in variable names in the COBOL Editor. This behavior cripples the function.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

DFHDPLOY More Functionality, i.e. FILE operations in CICS

Working with DFHDPLOY is quite good,makes handling of CICS-manipulation much easier.We currently searching for the Ability to CLOSE / DISABLE a vsam file andOPEN / ENABLE it after reloading.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

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