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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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Include HTTP Return Codes details in metrics sent to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect Site Reliability Engineer, I want to be able to view request HTTP Return Codes for z/OS Connect APIs in the ODP datasets. Today, I can see a "count" metric of HTTP Error Codes, but not the actual Error Codes. This will allow me, ...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Not under consideration

Include z/OS Connect HTTP Header details in metrics published to Omegamon Data Provider

As a z/OS Connect User, I want to be able to view header details, such as Correlation ID, in the z/OS Connect Request data that is sent to Omegamon Data Provider. This will allow me to add filters to my dashboards to view specific requests, using ...
2 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 1 Not under consideration

Maintain Global Information for IMS Programs

Please add support to maintain IMS program global status in RM, similar to the current support for transactions, databases and database areas, GSTSTRAN, GSTSDB and GSTSAREA. Support for programs with GSTSPGM would allow stopping and starting progr...
4 months ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 1 Future consideration

GDPS provisions SAF controls for accessing Netview when Netview already has a SAF resource to perform this. This means there are now two resources protecting the same function

With the implementation of GDPS 4.7 and the steps outlined in Role based security, GDPS folks have provided the following profile GDPSADMIN.USERCTL.<domain_id>. This means that when role based security is enabled and GDPS 4.7 is initialized ...
5 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

When a task purge/forcepurge attempt fails, there will be a log message saying so

We get a lovely message saying that the request to purge (or force purge) a task has been accepted. If it works, we get a message saying the task ended. If it doesn't... nothing.
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Under review

IDz DB2 Tooling. Increase the DDL text limitation when viewing Native Stored Procedures DDL source in IDz. Currently capped at 32K bytes.

In order for IDZ 16.0.4 or greater to be an effective development tools for z/OS DB2 Native stored procedures, it must be able to process NSPs with DDL greater than 32K. We have many if not most NSPs falling into this category The following error ...
10 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 1 Submitted

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
19 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Cobol Json Parse / Json Generate not reversible when working with Numeric Edited Fields

Hello, I would like to mention again 2 old Cases from me (TS010652468 and TS016864176), because the problem happened again with another Developer. Can you please check the last Case (TS016864176), where some discussion took place and IBM decided t...
20 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Submitted

Possibility of logging in and logging out of a session, by calling an external API

In order to track users connecting and disconnecting in an applinx server farm, we want to update an external table by calling an API service. Instead of going through all the farm servers and checking if a session exists or not.
6 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

We are asking for an enhancement to FM for IMS to have the capability of add/update a template, for an IMS managed ACB system running in an IMS data sharing environment, on any IMS within the data sharing environment.

The capability to add/update a template for an IMS managed ACB system, on a system where the IMS region isn't running, isn't in the current design of File Manager. We would like to see the enhancement of the product, to run/update a template on an...
6 days ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

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