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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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Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

remove systematic access to SYS1.PARMLIB by the CICS translator

with CICS TS 5.5 - the translator DFHECP1$ read SYS1.PARMLIB even if the DFHAPIR member is in a "user.PARMLIB" it has read access to the SYS1.PARMLIB - This generates security errors because this PDS is not accessible for developers. This is not b...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 12 Future consideration

WLM posibility in zosconnect_cicsConnectionGroup element

We have seen in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-cics-ipic-workload-distribution that the idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZCEE-I-153 has been solved by the RoundRobin algorithm (which...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Upgrade Kafka Client

The Kafka broker version we use is well in advance in compare to the Kafka Client 2.8.1. It produces unnecessary warnings on z/TPF. Moreover we would like to be proactive and be open to new features as well as to keep security enhancements u...
about 1 month ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

AD - Analyze client Legend icon shall appear in the menu bar next to other icons, but not under expandable menu

On AD Analyze client v611 we found that Legend icon is not visible any longer next to other icons (on this small menu bar), but instead it is hidden under pop-up menu. This is not very convenient, as when needed to use this Legend icon feature, de...
about 1 month ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Improvement of the flow job graph

Users of Application Discovery at SG need to be able to visualize the entire structure of a JCL by having information on the names of the steps, the programs used and the input and output files of each step. The flow job function seemed to be the ...
6 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

EXEC CICS SET FEATURE TOGGEL SWITCH

For Application Feature Toggels, it would be helpful to be able to SET a APPLICATION Featite Toggel OFF ON dynamically. It would be helpful in situations where large sections of code can be activated/deactivated to execute dynamically.
10 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Debugger clean-up job should stop all debugger message regions that are waiting for input

We are using Debug for Z/OS in our test regions. We have scheduled the clean-up job to run every night. This job executes the Program EQANIPSB. It has 2 steps - the first step stops all the debugger message regions and the next step deregisters al...
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, if any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check..

HI , As CICSDFLT userid id should have minimal access, and as CICSCAT3 transaction is open for all, If any transaction uses CICSDFLT id which is not a part CAT3 tran should be automatically restricted from CICS without doing SAF check. This will e...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

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