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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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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

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

Implement: 01 var1 LIKE var2.

Often variables are defined in copybooks or DCLGEN copybooks. There are times when the definition in that copybook changes slightly and it would be nice if a developer could simply rely on the compiler to use the picture of the copybook variable a...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 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

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

Reuse BAQCSTUB existing connection from DB2 Stored Procedure

We ask to add to BAQCSTUB the capability to re-use the connection to z/OS Connect when called from DB2 stored Procedure.There is no way for the BAQCSTUB to persist its connection between invocations of the stored procedure in the WLM managed Exter...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Support native SOCKS proxy configuration

With the integration to WatsonX Code Assistant, connection to DB2 on Cloud is needed. Often the ADDI server is required to be on-premises for security reasons and this is inside a firewalled environment. If the software contained native support fo...
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Fix of the issue where internal variables can be corrupted if a failure occurs during information transmission between GM-K and GM-R

Previously, there was a suggestion from the Development team that simultaneous initialization of GM-K and GM-R might corrupt internal variable information. However, even if we were to avoid simultaneous initialization, it was found that there is s...
8 months ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer MFA Support for zOS Connections outside RSE

Currently only zOS RSE connections include MFA support. We currently use zOS FTP, zOS Connect, etc. Connections.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 3 Not under consideration

Limit the amount for outgoing parallel connections via URIMAP

For each implementation of connection pooling in other systems, also in the distributed world, you are capable to limit the amount of parallel connections. This is something we would like to use for the connection pool of an URIMAP. The requiremen...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration