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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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Set LL value for IMS msg

A middleware application at the bank is responsible for sending data from branch applications back to IMS on the host and process the response back. The middleware team is looking to modernize this application to communicate to IMS using z/OS Conn...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ICSF / TKE / EKMF should all use the same VP for the same key type

The Verification Patterns that are used in ICSF, TKE and EKMF should be consistent so that an auditor or key manager would know that they are working with the same Key. There are times when a Key created on the TKE will show one VP method but the ...
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation 0 Future consideration

Monitoring data in ZCEE

Need of Monitoring data 'live' in ZCEE such as :Number of request in treatment (Service + API)Number of request treated (Service + API)Number of connected usersNumber of 'back end' (CICS,IMS,ect...) connected (specially with WOLA)Number of active ...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' between columns is not correctly limited

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' results are notcorrect when 'Restrict Search to columns' is set.Euro Info is expecting to have results which are included between the 'Start' column and 'End' column.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Flag SQL Statements not followed by a test of SQLCODE

The SQL coprocessor should flag any EXEC SQL Statement which is not followed by a test for return information in variable SQLCODE.
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration

CICS Handling of bad HTTP requests

Hello IBM Support, Security requirements use vulnerability scanners to 'ping' CICS, and these lead to false positives. A scanner may produce an error, that's not really an error...can CICS be enhanced to handle http errors better? Thank youJohn Ca...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Enhancement of Web Service Assistant for Enterprise PLI

When generating wsdl/wsbind files with the Webservice Assistant DFHLS2WS for all of our business services written in PL/I, we receive the message DFHPI9565E. DFHPI9565E: ALIGNED and UNALIGNED keywords are not supported for an entire structure. Thi...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

User wants to access directly to SPL files without generating PDFs (not always)

PDF files require a lot of storage space that could be saved this way
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

Omegamon IMS zIIP exploitation

We use TEPS for detailed monitoring on IMSPlex enviorenment. After a while some of Omegamon adress spaces started to use high CPU. We monitor region occupancy, global lock conflicts, region statistics from TEPS. Since these monitoring functions ca...
over 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Client 1 Future consideration

zOSConnect - Generating data format for integer

Hello,In zOSConnect toolkit 3.0.6.10, we have noted that for a data defined in PIC 9(n) in the copybook the generated data in swagger is like below :"contract_number" : {"type" : "integer","minimum" : 0,"maximum" : 99999999999999} ‎Without data fo...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration