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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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PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / All components 2 Not under consideration

change EQQYCOM to support rmode=any

IEW2646W 5383 ESD RMODE(24) CONFLICTS WITH USER-SPECIFIED RMODE(ANY) FOR SECTION EQQYCOM CLASS B_TEXT. we want to use standard linkage setting rmode=any and amode=31
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Re-order the JES output results from a Remote zOS File Search when a PDSE member list is wildcarded.

When using IDz and performing a Remote zOS File Search that uses a wild-carded PDSE member selection (e.g. PPH2*) rather than the entire PDSE, that the output that is presented back to the user in JES output from the job is not in the same order a...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Option to have spaces treated as zeros at Runtime

Our COBOL V6 migration has been painful and slow. Much of this due to 'invalid data'. The biggest pain for our applications folks are when copy books and linkage areas initialized to spaces at the 01 level. To code around this in V6 is a lot of ex...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Modify INGREQ Command Dialogs AOFKVFY1

When issuing a STOP vote against a grouip, update the logic so that the INGREQ verify panel AOFKVFY1 shows ALL affected resource, not only those defined directly to the group.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

PDB Comparison

Today there is no possibilty to compare the current PDB/SOCNTL against a new generated SONCTL to see the differences. With other words the automation adminstrator activates every change for a PDB / SOCNTL in blind flight without being able to chec...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

CICS Transaction Server to become ws-trust 1.4 compliant

To be able to fetch a token from IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) and following WS-trust 1.4 rules for signing, CICS need to be able to also sign an element in the SOAP header. This could be a timestamp, nonce or a sequence number. From WS-trust...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

New PyCSM and pyds8k packages to support IBM disk migrations

IBM Disk management team is making use of Python for disk migrations and we need additional Python packages installed to downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net We were asked by IBM to get the following for the disk management tools: PyCSM https://pypi.org/...
9 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for multiple Vertical Name-Value Pair metrics collection in Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC)

Currently RTMC supports a single Vertical NVP collection based on the ECB Owner High field where the performance metrics of an ECB can be subdivided based on each time the Vertical NVP (ECB Owner High) changes. If ECB Owner High is changed as an E...
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Increase NVP block size

We anticipate sending 40-100 NVPs including NVP metrics. As such, we are concerned that the maximum size of the name value pair area of 4k may be too small at this time.
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Future consideration

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