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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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Add SR.GROUP TO Special Resource security

Please can you add a security check AUTHDEF for the SR.GROUP using GROUP on the SRCOM record. This will allow for granting of access to Application Support Areas using a simple way instead of having to define all special resources to our security ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Add Ownership to ETT

Please can you add an owner to the ETT definition. We are busy decentralizing scheduling within the bank and are unable to decentralize the maintenance of ETT Option 1.7.1/2 as the definitions do not have ownership associated with the definition.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Enhancing RTMC NVP collection in tpfrtmc to extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data would enable examination of the underlying distributions for better insights that simple averages would hide.

During RTMC NVP collection the tpfrtmc component could extract a configurable sample of the received ECB data, which would include the following: ECB lifetime CPU burn time Finds Files Etc. This would enable examination of the underlying distribut...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Require ability to use TLS with LDAP server from HOD Config Server

The HOD HOMSRV task (Configuration Server) can communicate with an LDAP for configuration and user information but the current solution only allows for non-secure connections. Since this connection will have userids and password flowing it should ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

TN3270 auto-reconnect timer

Implement new timers in Personnal Communications for user to control TN3270 auto-reconnect.1) Reconnect time interval t - When TN3270 connection is dropped, after t seconds, auto-reconnect again.2) For the same TN3270 connection, try n auto-reconn...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 4 Planned for future release

Generated HTML with EGLDoc Plugin

Hi,We want to standardize all egl programs. In some parts such as programs, libraries, functions, records, items, it is essential to use "Description = #doc{ }" property.From this property we want to generate HTML such as Javadoc plugin. Thank you...
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Documentation 3 Planned for future release

Integration of zLDA with ServiceNow

We currently have multiple products that are interfacing with ServiceNow, but want to consolidate (or remove) the redundant products. This is very important to our organization / company that the mainframe data have the ability to port data into S...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add field names to the streamed CSV when using Generic HTTP subscriber.

The Generic HTTP subscriber is a great option to be able to integrate with 3rd party and opensource tools. The CSV format is easy to exploit and adapt. However it has no header and only contains the raw data, which greatly reduces its usefulness. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

IBM HATS high severity security issue - Session Fixation

Using HATS, the session id (JSESSIONID) created on login page of the application is not changed after successful authentication. Due to this application is vulnerable to high severity security issue - session fixation.
about 2 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Improve the standard log for jwt token validation

Some of the error reports in the validation of a JWT, such as iss configured not corresponding to the one present in the jwt or JWT not supplied in input, do not raise an exception as in the case of a badly formed JWT (e.g. expected 3 parts presen...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release