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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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SSL support for the statistics port in Explorer plugin

CICS/TG v10.1 now allows us to use protocol@statssslapi.parameters but the v3.1.0.1 version of the CTG plugin for z/OS Explorer doesn't support this encrypted communication. I think it would be a good idea to release a new version of the plugin th...
25 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

Allow CTG to connect to JWK endpoint URL

Currently CTG is able to validate a JWT with a public key inside a RACF keyring. Unfortunetly this certificate can change often and can cause some issue. Instead of RACF, it would be great that CTG be able to call an JWK endpoint URL to catch the ...
4 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Submitted

As an IMS systems programmer, I want the ability to make messages sent by IMS back to the client (e.g. DFS3688I) visible to operators and automation on z/OS.

Actually, to have an alerting when a transaction reaches his expire time we have, in the OTMA client descriptor (DFSYDTx), activated the parameter TODUMP with the option YES This solution is no longer efficient because when the issue arises our MP...
20 days ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Enhancement request to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI

Client requested the enhancement to see something alias of the programs and includes in Japanese in Callgraph and Flowchart views in ADDI.He wants to accelerate understanding by comparing with alias in Japanese specification document and ADDI.If t...
3 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

COBOL uninitialized variables: Changing the way storage is obtained

Dear Madam/Sir We upgraded from Enterprise COBOL v4.2 to v6.3 in 2022. Since then we have enabled various checks provided by the new compiler like PARMCHECK, INITCHECK and NUMCHECK. During these three years we are trying to correct our programs th...
5 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Display CEMT I MODE info (Max, Available, and Active sessions) in the Enhanced 3270

When trouble-shooting ISC connection issues, sys admins use the ISC Connection Detail panel (KCPCOND) to review sessions acquired and released. Sys admins also logon to the region and perform CEMT I MODE to get Max, Available, and Active session c...
7 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Extending CICS SMF records with relation between transaction and programs

Hello, we are currently looking into our application which transaction is calling which programs. This is not easy to find out because there is currently no information about that relation in CICS statistics. The CICS statistics already shows whic...
17 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Submitted

HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
4 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 4 Planned for future release

Add Visual and Logical Text Layer in DB2 properties for IDz 16.x

Hi, For Hebrew users (or other languages that write from right to left), there is a need to read the SQL results in Visual Text Layer, otherwise the data is displayed in reverse order. We can't find the Text Layer option on Default BiDi Settings i...
6 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

ROUTOPS PROXY support for Remote Workstations on IWA/d

When setting up a remote workstation on IWS/z, where the agent is on IWS/d in Kubernetes, it is often front ended by a Kubernetes Ingress. This restricts the number of open ports to communicate with applications within the containerised world. Thi...
24 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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