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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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Alow Editing/Viewing of Customized Data Stream Definitions for CDPz

There is no interface to View/Edit Customized Data Stream Definitions after creating them which is ridiculous. I would have to start from scratach to correct or update user Customized definitions. Why provide an interface to allow for customized d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Sync TPF File System tables in loosely coupled systems

We cleaned up the tpf file system in one of our sabre systems and noticed other processors didn't reflect the update with a ZFILE df -aic entry. I submitted a case (TS003005946) with the following response: The numbers for these values sync up ove...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Include elapsed upload time in cloud dataset display

During file upload CTC calculates the current upload rate and elapsed upload time, both values are visible in the active tasks display. Once the upload completes the entry no longer exists under active tasks, but it is available in the cloud datas...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

JWT Client Token Coded CTG.INI

JWTclient Token coded into CTG.INI file, It is not a good solution from separation of duty and Security Audit Perspective. JWT Token and the CTG general parameters should coded in different file and controlled by different teams.
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Support all of the MQ Called Routines

MQ provides called routines for the Batch, CICS, and IMS environments that AD does not support. Table of MQ provided called routines are found at: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_8.0.0/com.ibm.mq.dev.doc/q028780_.htm
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

show columns dssgroup in zos explorer ctg plugin on cics connection view

possibility to show a columns dssgroup in zos explorer ctg plugin on cics connection view
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 4 Future consideration

Federated Registry support for CICS Liberty

System : CICS Liberty - Registry Actor : User who has the dist LDAP ID by ID Propagation and SAF ID in z/OS In the CICS Liberty, the ID Propagation can be configured to support mapping the distributed LDAP registry ID and SAF ID. In this case, the...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

RSA - R?gle "V?rifier la valeur du SQLCODE apr?s un EXEC SQL" et utilisation des WHENEVER

Voir ticket TS002533616
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Future consideration

Provide ISPF option to display active RULEDEFS with line match data for debug

Advanced Allocation Management provides an ISPF option to display the contents of the current RULEDEFS member. Since the product RULEDEFS can be dynamically refreshed it would also be good to be able to display the current actual rule definitions ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for calling Non-LE OS 31 linkage from xlclang++ in 64 bit mode.

Allow calling existing legacy Non-LE OS 31 from xlclang++ in 64 bit mode. Allow the generation of the OS 31 parameter list. It is the responsibility of the caller to make sure addresses and memory are below the bar. The compiler merely generates O...
about 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Future consideration