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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 JWE Payload(entire/individual elements) Encryption in z/OS Connect as specified by Mastercard

Overview This Request for enhancement (RFE) proposes the implementation of JWE payload(entire/individual elements) encryption support in IBM z/OS Connect, as specified by Mastercard under the following URL: Mastercard Payload Encryption Documentat...
3 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Submitted

PanelID EQQWWSEP - List Workstation in Offline/Inactive status

For instances with many workstations it is useful to get a list of workstations which are in offline status
3 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Submitted

Line Truncation Warning

Hi friends. When there are some lines in a cobol program that exceed the maximum line length a dialog can be displayed to warn the user. But, there is NO option to know WHICH lines are the ones that exceed this line length? Sometimes is very diffi...
3 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Allow LIST RECORD consumption to be drifted to ZIIP processors.

Now, IZDS and IZPCA allow the derivation of a COLLECT to ZIIP, but it is not possible to do the same with a LIST RECORD.It would be good to study the possibility of adapting the LIST RECORD as well.
3 days ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Submitted

View or Print datasets of history (RKC2HIST) when CICS region is down

Now there is no possibility to view the dataset of the history when the CICS region is inactive. The request is to have the possibility from the TOM to read the history dataset even if the CICS region is inactive or to have an utility (from the TO...
3 days ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 0 Submitted

Enable AMODE(64) support in COBOL

Current CICS TS releases do not support AMODE(64) COBOL. The EXEC CICS GETMAIN64 command is for use only in non-LE AMODE(64) Assembler application programs. We would like to have that support in COBOL as well, which would benefit us to leverage th...
3 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

The GDPS monitor should not report an error when the GM session is paused during scheduled captures in the Cybervault environment.

In our Cybervault environment, we take a capture every 8 hours at 2am, 10am, and 6pm. During each capture, the GM session is paused, which is normal behaviour; however, GDPS detects that the GM session isn't running and generates an alert: GEO645E...
7 days ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Provide native support for web services requester in JSON

Hello, Currently CICS TS does not support web services requester in JSON format as mentioned in manual :https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=services-planning-json-service-requester-application. As a result, our application team has been ...
10 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 0 Planned for future release

SCRT should be changed to honor AbsoluteGroupCapping / AbsoluteCapping setup on the HMC

We've licenced HW TFP. To prohibit to peak into the TFP corridor, we set up AbsoluteGroupCapping on the HMC for a Capacity Group that includes all LPARs on the CEC to limit the number of CPs used. This was fine for 3 months. Afterwards we recogniz...
29 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted