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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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Increment number of member after build is complete

TD Bank decided to use ADDI 5.1.0.4 and a full build is required after adding and/or updating any nymber of members on ADI (it should be incremental).
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Enabling unit testing of deployable load module

We would like to be able to do section and paragraph testing on the load module that we will be using for production.A unit testing framework like COBOL Check, builds a new COBOL program, that tests the code. But we are actually not certain that t...
over 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need a new transaction equivalent to CEMT INQUIRE

The auditors want reports on who has accessed critical transactions such as CEMT. Even though we have our security definitions set up so most users can only use INQUIRE with CEMT, SMF simply reports a user executed CEMT with no further breakdown. ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

TRDUMPCODE Current count increase in size

For the TRDUMPCODE display, would like to increase the Current count from 4 digits to at least 6 digits. Although it seems like a excessive amount, we have had occasions of test CICS regions creating more than 100K transaction abends when triggere...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support up to 100 chararcters in mapped PLI names when using XML assistant DFHSC2LS / DFHWS2LS

Due to http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_4.2.0/com.ibm.cics.ts.applicationprogramming.doc/datamapping/dfhws_wsdl2pli.html the xml assistant DFHSC2LS truncates resulting PLI names to a maximum of 31 characters. But PLI supports u...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Need OpenID Connect for Liberty Webserver to work with DBB

Current Security Model used by DBB - LDAP or internal security are not approved standards for security at Bank of America.
over 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Highlite negative statuses in Supersession

This is additional request for delivered RFE in https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CLSS-I-73 We like the new feature, but we'd like to have also possibility or 3rd color position in KLSOPTHL to be able to also highlight negative Ses...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer Access Control

IMS Explorer is eclipse based solution which is used to define connection and interaction profiles to target IMS systems along with service and transaction definitions. As these two activities are performed by different roles. Fine grain access co...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Dojo MenuBar

Hi,please add the Dojo MenuBar widget. https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/MenuBar.html
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Cics Web Services <wsse_handler> DFHWSSE1 with new option <ignore_signature/> to ignore the message signature.

Using CICS Web Services wandering if we could have a <wsse_handler> DFHWSSE1 with on option to ignore the signature and not give an error. Similar to: In provider pipelines only, an optional <reject_signature/> element. If this element...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration