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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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Open CICS - TCPIPS automatically after a TCP/IP restart

CICS - TCPIPS goes to closed state if any outage in TCP/IP, but it does not open automatically when the TCP/IP is back. We have to manually open the TCPIPS in CICS using CEMT. Can the CICS-TCPIPS set to open state as automatic when the TCPIP ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Policy Rule to use Header value simply IF header is present

Today we can create rules to take action based on Conditions with EQUAL, AND, and OR operations. for example:<conditions> <header name="cicsTran" value="KE18,KE20"/> </conditions> <actions> <set property="cicsTransId" va...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Delivered

Purge CDBT txn

System: CDBT txnActor: Purge CDBT Ability to "PURGE" CDBT txn. Situation arises when IMS is failing and several CICS regions simultaneously issue CDBC DIS IMM to "failing" IMS.IMS appears to only handle a set number DISCONNECTS from CICS. This res...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Better tolerate STOP/START of container

The current iteration of zAPM required specific actions be taken in zAPM when the container or MQ region is stopped or restarted:- "Note: If IBM MQ is stopped or restarted for any reason, you need to either recycle the container address space or r...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Delivered

Missing of asynchronous mode for calls of parser or for other queries results in far too many freezes and white screens

During the edition of members, too many blockages appears (freeze, white screen..).They are problematics as they prevent the developers from doing their job. They can last several seconds up to several minutes.When they last several minutes, the o...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

Provide a Java 8 compiled JZOS jar via Maven central

Recently, a Java 11 compiled version of the JZOS jar has been added to maven central allowing build tools such as Maven and Gradle to add it as a dependency with less friction for projects and developers. Since this jar has been compiled with Java...
11 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 5 Delivered

Help identify corrupt APIs in seconds

Together with a customer we ran a zCEE v3 PoC. We ran into trouble where we could not connect to the APIs on the zCEE server anymore and not all APIs were loaded, receiving cryptic error messages in the Eclipse GUI and in zCEE messages.log. We cou...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Delivered

RDz cumulative Code Coverage Report

RDz has a function that merge the code coverage results to show in a view, but i need to generate report for this merged results. Rdz has this function only for individual results, and we need for the merged result.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Delivered

SSL Certificate expiration advanced warning in CICS

When an SSL certificate used in a CICS region expires, it can take time and sometimes a region cycle or other outage to update it. There is currently no warning message in CICS that an SSL certificate is about to expire.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE ARM support installation

Customers using z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition v3.0.53 need to install z/OS ARM feature manually. z/OS Connect EE supported ARM feature but ARM feature was not shipped with z/OS Connect EE install package. Customers using ARM feature with z/OS Co...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered