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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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the creation of an option to inhibit or manage appropriately Assignment name for environment variable

Dynamic allocation can introduce opportunities for system vulnerability
7 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Compatibility of IMS TM Resource Adapter with Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors) Namespace

We currently migrate a major insurance application from Java EE to Jakarta EE 10 (Liberty). So far we used the IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.5) to integrate with IMS 15.3 with Java EE in a large number applications. We need an enhancement, to...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Performance improvements reuested when using the built in Remote Connection Emulator under IDz 16.0.2

Compared to standalone host connection emulator software like PCOMM, the built in Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) under IDz 16.02 is slower in performance when navigating ISPF screens and entering commands. The usability of the RCE could be impro...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

IMS API first approach

See https://github.com/zosconnect/sample-cics-api-first Would be great if this API first approach would not be limited to CICS, should also be possible for IMS. Eliminates the need to maintain the designer installation and learn how-to use the it....
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Full IBM support required of OMA (OPC Migration Aid) related modules used to migrate non IBM Scheduling Tools to IzWS.

As part of a recent migration from the CA7 Batch Scheduling Tool to IBM's IzWS, a number of OMA (OPC Migration Aid) related modules, supplied by the IBM migration team, were integrated into our local environment. Noting these modules are a require...
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T

dls should list all dataset types (including VSAM) by default (not just non-VSAM/GDGs) along with including the VSAM dataset type when using -T dls xxxxxxxx.** dls will only list all VSAM datasets using the -t option, but the dls man page does not...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

Increase the character limt of the JVMPROFILE attribute in JVMSERVER CICS resource definition.

Right now, the character limit of JVMPROFILE attribute in JVMSERVER CICS resource definition is limited to 8 Chars. However the character limit allowed for a Unix file in z/OS is 1023 Chars. The 8-character limit on JVM profiles restricts our abil...
27 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Call External Stored Procedures

Hi, Our company uses a lot of external stored procedures (mainly written in Cobol, Java). It would be great if the IDz gets a possibility to call them. After entering the input parameters, the result (e.g. output parameters or result sets) is disp...
27 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Provide ENQ / DEQ services

We are migrating Rexx code to Python, some of our Rexx code calls a Module that issues ENQ / DEQ to serialize some processing against other ZOS processes running. We would like to issue an ENQ/DEQ from Python through a ZOAU function.
about 2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

WAPL | Permit partial values for FILTER segment/record comperators

The segment operators in the FILTER function do not permit the usage of partial values. The usage of partial values with common wildcard charactes like in the List/Select-Statement would be helpful and creats a greate user experience while using W...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration