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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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IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Conditional compilation variable to reflect status of ADV/NOADV compilation option

Hi, Depending on the ADV / NOADV compilation option chosen, the way of describing the record area of a report file is different: ADV option: the printer control character must not be described NOADV option: the printer control character must be ...
8 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

Remove 32 bit files from zD&T Linux targets

These files are part of the distribution/installation on the ZD&T targets: /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/libMD5CHAP.so /opt/safenet_sentinel/common_files/sentinel_keys_server/PwdGenUtility /opt/safenet_sentinel/common...
8 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

zUnit to support assertions 'lower than', 'greater than', 'different than', 'not null'

Currently zUnit only permits assertions ‘equal to’ in the testcases executions. We need zUnit to permit assertions of other types: ‘lower than’, ‘lower or equal than’, ‘greater than’, ‘greater or equal than’, 'different than' and 'not null'.This c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Web requester AT-TLS aware

Outbound web requester (SOAP) EXEC CICS INVOKE WEBSERVICE will use CICS SSL support if HTTPS is the protocol scheme in the URI. Shop standard is to have AT-TLS policy look for outbound HTTP requests to servers and create SSL session to server. In ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Grouping of AD projects as a quick start / filter

With a grouping of certain AD projects to a topic / filter, a quick access can be made for different analyzes on recurring AD projects. The grouping based on a filter criterion (name) provides an improved overview in the Explore View, especially f...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Implement a delay before querying a zCentric agent after the workstation became active

When a zCentric workstation goes from Offline to Active status, the controller immediately queries the agent to retrieve the status of the jobs. If the agent does not know the jobs requested by the controller, the latter sets them in UNKN error. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

zCentric job delays due to

We are looking for an EASIER way (either through EQQAUDIT report, or WAPL or RESTAPI even) of determining when a zcentric job is delayed due to parallel server limitation being exceeded (AND what the limit was set to as users can change the limit ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Native InTune package and customizations

Creation of a native Intune deployment for IBM Personal Communications including default settings and customizations. We would like to use the native deployment methods of Microsoft Intune to deploy and automatically update PComm. Example would be...
8 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

OPCOPTS - Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES should be set default as YES since it always caused OPC Fetch Directive error if not set to YES

As this Parameter REMJCLDIRECTIVES current default set to NO is an very old design, when we use OPC Fetch Directive, the JCL will always throw error anyway. This mean REMJCLDIRECTIVES(YES) will be mandatory. However, this should also take in cons...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

When health RESETZERO, stop flow of Transactions into Gateway. TS015557631

When transaction gateway about to shutdown; let the tasks in the gateway finish; then shutdown the gateway. RESETZERO not to allow just new connections to the gateway, but to allow no more transaction traffic. See Case: TS015557631
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration