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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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Need ability to link CICS WLM Quiesce status to zOS WLMHealth

When a CICS region is quiesced in CICS Plex System Management Work Load Management, the region is seen as unhealthy by CICSPlex System Management so it will be much less likely to to route work to it from other CICS regions in the same CICSPlex th...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

INGGROUP should have a parm to prevent entire group outages

The inggroup now accepts RECYCLE to perform a psuedo rolling recycle of the group. You can specify CHUNK to indicate how many members of that group should be processed in parallel. The one thing it does not do is ensure that the previous resource ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Free Source Format

The e-COBOL Compiler should follow the standard 2002 with the definition of free source format. It should be implemented how it was done in COBOL for AIX.- variable length up to 252 columns- existence of area A and area B (not standard-2002!!!)- s...
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

delete-trailing-blanks-in-data-receiver-csv-fields

Hi, The data receiver component is supposed to be optimal for sending data to splunk, yet it sends lots of csv fields to splunk with trailing blanks. Customer would like the tool to optionally delete trailing blanks from csv fields and hence prope...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 3 Future consideration

Possibility to change dynamically the interval that message DFHDS0102I is issued

In CICS TS 5.6, message DFHDS0102I was introduced to show the QR TCB CPU Dispatch Ratio. This message is issued, by default, every 5 minutes. To change the frequency of this message it is necessary to specify INITPARM=(DFHQRCPU='nn') as a system i...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

ADDI: Communication between AD Client and MSQL DB should be done exclusively via AD Services

For the analysis of artifacts and the display of results in the AD client, the communication runs via the AD services on a Windows server and not directly to the MS SQL server. From a security point of view, the analyzed data must not be accessed ...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

HOD HTML Override Functionality with Web Start

With browsers ending support for NPAPI plugins (with the exception of Internet Explorer, whose last version will be 11 and will seemingly be retired with the end of the Windows 10 support lifecycle), the direction is to move to using Web Start cli...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Not under consideration

TN3270E Protocol

Kyndryl uses IBM product called System Automation for Integrated Operations (SAIOM). This product is providing our Operators with access to system consoles. SAIOM is client/server-based product. It provides a menu where an Operator can select a pa...
10 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Allow Search > Text > File function to be case insensitive

We direct our developers who use the COBOL and JCL edits to the Search > Text > File function when they are looking for an equivalent function to the LPEX Find All action. We occasionally run into issues because the Search > Text > Fil...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Allow the ability to replace Property Groups with Importing

When importing Property Groups, show the conflicting Property Groups unchecked in the list. If the user checks them. Overlay/replace the Property Group. The current scheme of having to delete a conflicting Property Group before being able to impor...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

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