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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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Support for Connect:Direct statistics

Currently there is no way to gather IBM Connect:Direct statistics records, like the TCP/FTP functionality.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Resource Sensitive TCLASS

Allow a tclass to be defined by its performance characteristics instead of a pure number, for example, maxstorage or maxcpu. This will simplify the management of tclasses by making them self leveling. Today if we set a tclass at 10 to limit storag...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve Enterprise COBOL 5/6 performance in high volume CICS transaction environments

Enterprise COBOL 5/6 includes a completely rewritten "back end" that generates high performance object code. It's "claim to fame" is the significant performance improvements it offers customers. However, those performance improvements are only ava...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Special Report Option for Overrides needed

Hello IBM,we need a additional Policy Database report, to find and identify our used AT OVERRIDES in the PolicyDB on a easy way. For migrations and optimization measures of our PolicyDB, we use currently the "Full Policy Database Report" to find a...
about 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

ADDI CA7 job triggering flow with Data Files usage

CA7 will drive the flow of files shared thru path.
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Functionality already exists

ID/z does not uses tags set by chtag to translate the USS-file in it's set codepage

ID/z does not uses tags set by chtag to translate the USS-file in it's set codepage, but only uses it's default codepage setting (IBM-1047)You have to manually set the correct codepage within ID/z to view the USS-file in its proper format
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

Possibility to export all components from AD project exploration tab(for each resource type)

Hello In existing AD versions, there is no feature to export all listed components from the project exploration tab. For certain business cases, there is a need to export all components as-is from that list into the different doc as it displays bo...
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

JWT Token Authentication Support for IMS Connect, TM RA and ICAL

We would like to use JWT (JSON Web Token) as the only method to authenticate against IMS Connect. Similar to what Network Security credential propagation support offers today, but more advanced and specific to JWT. IMS TM RA for inbound should pro...
about 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable automatic file association.

Provide an option to disable the automatic file association that is done when opening a file that does not meet any z/OS File Mapping criteria. Since the PMR ID field above doesn't accept the new TS ID format, here it is: TS002715273
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to Include/Exclude/OMIT zOS Conn LIST report.

CICS PA zOS Connect LIST report helps to format individual records as such. Currently it reports 40+ Fields. Can we be provided with option to OMIT fields that we dont want in the report. Can we be provided with Filter option to INCLUDE / EXCLUE r...
about 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

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