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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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When health RESETZERO, stop flow of Transactions into Gateway. TS015557631

When transaction gateway about to shutdown; let the tasks in the gateway finish; then shutdown the gateway. RESETZERO not to allow just new connections to the gateway, but to allow no more transaction traffic. See Case: TS015557631
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Allow ZCDNV to set a configurable number of NVPs that would be displayed on Dump messages sent to prime cras console

As we increase the use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC), the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area is becoming increasingly important to our application developers to rapi...
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add a warning message when the Network Services Database rejects socket connections due to Max connection value

In order to more rapidly troubleshoot and resolve production network and connection issues, updating the TCP/IP Network Services Database code to issue a warning message to the console when the NSD limit rejects an inbound or outbound connection c...
11 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Need VM relocation among z/VM compute nodes

To balance the workload among the compute nodes
11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 1 Future consideration

Flag RX instructions with index but no base register

It has been a common malpractice since more than half a century not to use a base register but the index register in rx instructions, e.g. L Ra,100(Rb) instead of L Ra,100(,Rb). Historically, this implied some performance penalty (AFAIR), nowadays...
almost 2 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

Missing options in CICS Explorer for System Dump Codes

CICS/TS 5.4 upwards have options DSPLIST (Data Space List) and JOBLIST (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSGMCP_5.4.0/reference/commands-spi/dfha8_setsysdumpcode.html) which have also been added to the CICSPlex SM base table (https://www.ibm.com/docs/e...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

To enable an option in the COBOL compiler to get the DB2 integrated coprocessor behaves as the separated DB2 precompiler does

We have been using the COBOL 4.2 compiler for years in our shop. We have just begun to use the integrated SQL coprocessor, instead of the separated DB2 precompiler and we are experiencing problems with the continuation lines. The manual says the p...
over 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 48 Not under consideration

Generate Galasa Code from HATS Macros

In addition to generating web services from HATS macros, we'd like the option to generate Galasa code. Both are Java-based, and since very few companies are currently using the option to generate restful service files and Galasa seems to be attrac...
11 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Non-industry Specific 2 Planned for future release

Usage of Software Analyser with EWM EE

When one wants to trigger a scan, the pop-ups expose a view of the EWM folders connected to IDZ. Unfortunately it is not possible to trigger an analysis from these folders
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

SE workload migration

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11 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Under review

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