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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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z/OS Connect doesn't have all standard OAUTH provider authentication methods implemented as per RFC 6749 and

z/OS Connect currently only supports either basic authentication or private key JWT authentication methods ( 2.3.1 . Client Password) in RFC 6749 while authenticating with OAUTH JWT providers to procure the JWT token and inject into the API call. ...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Support COPY statement in a PSB file.

The PSB compiler in Application Discovery Build Client does not support a COPY statement in a PSB file. We request this be supported.
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

"Add func" of an Application parameter would be good to the Error Handler layout (ended-in-error-list)

Hello, I would have a suggestion for the TWS ended-in-error-list layout. In the TWS error handler, usually we set the required fields which help us for the error handling. It usually depends on the design how a customer use the Scheduler tool. ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

GDPS Ansible Collection for IBM Z

While GDPS has already provided the APIs for integration with customers developed automations or CI/CD pipelines, it would further simplify the use of the GDPS APIs if IBM could provide the GDPS Ansible Collection for IBM Z. Using of Ansible Tower...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

CICS policies - Suspend time policy rule for user task

CICS policies currently don't have an option to take action on an user task based on Suspend time. Even though RTA has this setup , cost of implementing RTA and its process is not as efficient as CICS policies. Hence Im making a request to IBM to ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

Auto mapping

Considering that there will be many fields, manually linking/mapping needs lots of efforts. If customer provide a mapping information (such like excel where API field name and COBOL field name are provided), can the toolkit imports excel file and ...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Clear command for IWS selection panels (ISPF dialog)

For the IWSz ISPF dialog a new primary command (CLEAR or RESET) should be implemented for all selection panels (e.g. EQQASELP, EQQSOPFP, ..) that clears all input fields or resets them to the default value. Use case:Because of new functionality th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IMS TM Resource Adapter compatible with Java 17 and Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors)

We currently migrating APIs SpringBoot applications from Java version 8 to 17. Currently, we are using IBM Liberty Host and IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.7) to integrate with IMS 15.1 with Java version 8. However, we need to migrate to Java v...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Add MQ Version to OMEG MQ entry panel KMQSTRTI

We operate MQ subsystems in different versions To have an overview on which MQ version level a system is, we would like to see this in Panel KMQSTRTI - IBM MQ Queue Manager Status (displaycols, sortcols and filtercols). p.e. MQVERSION from table K...
8 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Future consideration