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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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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

Add new system rule 'monitor DSA/EDSA'

Currently, monitoring of DSA/EDSA in rule of policy is done at task level (task rule) I would be interesting to have same monitoring at region level (system rule)
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add a filter for filename on task rule 'file activity' and a delay.

Currently, when using policy and task rule 'file activity', we monitor all files activity. I would be interesting to be able able to specify a filename in task rule 'file activity' because usually we want to take action on specific file, not all. ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Policy : Option in action part of rule to do nothing

Currently, when using policy, each time a rule is triggered, we must code an action (message, event or abend). I would be interesting to add an option 'do nothing'. I will allow to code rule for exception (exclude specific resource) with no action...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

Option in action part of policies to stop scanning of rules when one is applicable

Currently, when using policy, task rules are scanned and applied even if first one is applicable. This is explained in documentation : Specify thresholds for the following attributes as filters. You can define multiple task rules of the same rule ...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

Solicitamos que EXX con seguridad pueda contemplar un ‘APPL=nombre_aplicacion’ de tal manera que el aplication name profile sea consistente e idéntico en las distintas LPARs y de esta manera se pueda utilizar la autenticación con passticket sin problema”

Disponemos de dos LPARs en nuestro entorno de Producción (EX83 y EX90) y queremos utilizar una VIPA distribuida de acceso a estas LPARs. Queremos montar nodos EntireX (EXX) con seguridad (en cada LPAR) y utilizar passticket para autenticar a los u...
about 1 month ago in EntireX 1 Under review

Correlate the PST processing the request with QUERY ODBM TYPE(THREAD) information in IMS to identify and kill the concerned long running threads and regions.

This is very useful to identify and kill the inefficient and long running IMS SQLs. At the moment we cannot correlate between the ODBM threads and processing region (DBT) on IMS side. There could be queries that could run longer and do not fill th...
3 months ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 0 Under review

Add a Descriptor and/or Route Code to DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE like in PL/I to do WTO (ASM)

Today, the DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE statement has a default Desciptor Code of 2 and a Route Code of 3. For automated log processing, it is important to be able to specify these codes. The only way today is to call an Assembler program performing WTO. ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Respect the dbb-userbuild settings in zapp files also in IDz.

Our users consider it cumbersome to manually click themselves through the whole USS folder structure when configuring the DBB userbuild. With VSCode and z open editor one can configure the user build using a special section of the zapp file (https...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration