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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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We would like digitally signed software downloads for the z/TPF Product Family

Enacting this policy (digitally signed software downloads) would save my team a lot of unnecessary paperwork.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

Enable CICS webservices to return a HTTP code 204 without a body.

We are using REST webservices on CICS to expose our existing COBOL backend functionality. We have a use case where we would like to return a HTTP code 204: No Content. CICS can return this HTTP code without problems, but whatever we do, CICS allwa...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

AD to provide support for REXX

Provide support for REXX at the same level as COBOL and Pl/I.
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

new suppress prefix

The compiler has a lot of useful informations and warnings.Some of this couldn't be eliminated at time - therefore the message list get longer and longer - the risk to overlook a new message increase.As developer I want to accept a message for a s...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Registration Scanner to record logical files but skip scanning them

There are scenarios, where a LogicalFile should be recorded within the Metadatastore, but the file does not need to be scanned. This applies for instance for configuration files, JCL, XML, PROCs, DDL and others. Today, the DBB SearchPathDependency...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

ADD the posbility to use Header in the oAUTH

z/OS Connect OAuth 2.0 support follows the The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework standard: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749fo . This does not specify any header than the Authorization header be flowed on the request. There is no way to confi...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Request to retain PSB and DBD COMMENTS in IMS Explorer toolset & IMS Catalog

Travelers needs both the IMS Explorer toolset and the IMS Catalog to retain PSB/DBD COMMENTS. We have historical tracking comments at the top of our PSBs and DBDs. The comments we want to keep are at the top. We don't care about the ones in the mi...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

Sign the EKMF log with a key that offers up-to-date security, i.e. AES-HMAC or ECC 500+ Bits

Requirement 1: The currently used DES keys for securing the log of EKMF are not anymore allowed in our organization. More current crypto algorithms have to be used for new log entries. Currently accepted are AES-HMAC and ECC with more than 500 Bit...

Support userid/password when syncronizing members thru CLI

It's possible to use userid/password when fetching from z/os using GUI/BuildClientConfiguration but it's not supported when syncing thru CLI. To add this option in CLI would mean it's possible to automate updates with authentication enabled in AD-...

EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration