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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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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 ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

SSH JAM recycle should defer shutdown to allow work/connections in progress to complete

When SSH JAM is recycled, any SFTP connections in progress are lost. Update the SSH JAM to allow connection in progress to complete.
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow OMITTED parameters in function identifier.

The COBOL 2002 standard allows for the OMITTED keyword to be specified as a parameter to a function identifier. This should be allowed for Enterprise COBOL. It could be implemented in a manner similar to specifying OMITTED as a parameter in a CALL...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

Request SFTP interface with off zTPF LDAP.

We already use LDAP within our enterprise for various applications. This supports both userid/password authentication and roles. Would like to exploit that capability to z/TPF SFTP processing.
3 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Need API Requester Project creation in IDz

The Service and API archive projects are created using the primary menu option, File, and selecting “z/OS Connect EE Service Project” or “z/OS Connect EE API Project” respectfully in IDz. Using these functions generates projects specially setup fo...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 10 Future consideration

Improvements to the GROUP keyword used in the SYSPLEX verb

We would like the ability to have enhanced selection criteria for the GROUP statement in the SYSPLEX verb. As an example during Site Switch, we shutdown the whole of a SITE with the exception of certain systems, it would be useful to have a statem...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

Kafka fault tolerance , data loss and scalability improvement.

The zAPM product's Kafka configuration is currently not utilizing persistence storage and is running on a single pod. While this setup may be functional to some extent, it exposes the system to potential risks and limitations. I kindly request you...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

DWC Connection Engine Admin Role

We are using a separate DWC instance on each sysplex to connect operators to different controllers.The responsible systems programmer has created connection engines.When the systems programmer was off on vacation, we wanted to lookup the connectio...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow more flexibility in the location of DFHAPIR

As currently designed, DFHAPIR can only be found as a single member name in a z/OS PARMLIB list. As CICS systems programmers, we normally don't have access to z/OS libraries so making changes requires change requests and possibly days between upda...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

MGM resiliency in recovery region

With MzGM 4-SITE we had resiliency in our recovery region for disk. For example, if C disk (XRC secondaries) died, GDPS/Metro in that region could Hyperswap to D disk and XRC would remain up, capable both of building DR and of doing our daily requ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

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