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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 MFA support to z/OS FTP Perspective

The z/OS Explorer's z/OS perspective for FTP connections should be enhanced to support MFA authentication. Currently, it only supports userID + password authentication.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Not under consideration

Government issued subscriptions for using nicotine, alcohol and cannabis products.

Researchers would benefit from this idea. Also, Governments and Consumers will benefit by implementing a more classy society. Not only that, governments and companies that invest in this idea will make a huge amount of reoccurring income! It’s ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide a ZBOST STOP ISTREAM option that collapses all boosted i-streams

ZBOST STOP ISTREAM says it stops I-Stream Boost but it just immediately collapses the highest boosted i-stream number and sets the timer for the next to collapse in 1 minute. We need an option that will collapse all boosted i/streams to the CAP va...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow custom DFHAPPL length

DFHAPPL is a unique EMP in that it survives a DELIVER, which is important to us because we use DBCTL and some DBCTL functions invoke a DELIVER EMP (I assume to allow separate stats per PSB). We would like to use DFHAPPL because of this ability but...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

System Events for DSA/EDSA storage threshold

Provide a mechanism similar to the task threshold in system events, so that when the storage allocation exceeds a predefined threshold (in percentage), an event would be emitted.Checking the storage usage percentage could be done when a new extent...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Connections Import including Truststore

We currently share connections via plugin_customization.ini zFS .pref file links referenced by a TCPIPSERVICE/URIMAP definition pair. We have a requirement to change the TCPIPSERVICE Defs to SSL=Yes. We really need to be able to pre-configure the ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

Improve IMS OTMA resilience in periods of system slowdown.

OTMA storage utilization includes static storage for control blocks and variable storage for various buffers and working storage.The variable storage both varies in size and in duration of allocation, depending on phase of OTMA processing.System s...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Add 7740 Cache and Physical Drive Alerting

We would like to be able to setup situations in Omegamon for Storage to alert us to cache utilization and physical tape drive utilization on a TS7740.
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Reporting 0 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

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