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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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Allow Custom Interval Start Time for Interval Reports

I run a CICS PA SUMMARY report, with INTERVAL(00:15:00) to get 15 minute intervals. The defaults seem to be on 00:00:00, 00:15:00, 00:30:00 and 00:45:00. But I need to force the intervals to match the SMF 30 recording intervals that a customer ha...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Add time offset parameter to cloud server definition

In order to successfully connect with a cloud server the system and server times must be somewhat synchronized. CTC sets its time based on system time. Given the geo-dispersed nature of cloud storage this may not always be close enough to allow fo...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support IDOT definitions at CTL/CAT dump level

ZIDOT does not allow you to associate an override with all CTLs dumps, or all Catastrophic dumps. There are times when we want to add the same storage override to any catastrophic dump but not to all CTL or OPR dumps with SYSDUMP =YES.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

add a simulation mode during image deployment

add a simulation mode during the image deployment in order to have the list of deployed volumes
almost 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 3 Not under consideration

Tranclass Timeout

Add a mechanism to timeout transactions waiting on Tranclass. The timeout value needs to be a parm that the customer can set.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Add support for EVALUATE numeric-dataitem WHEN IS POSITIVE / WHEN IS NEGATIVE / WHEN IS ZERO / END-EVALUATE

The EVALUATE statement does not support SIGN CONDITION. EVALUATE numeric-DataItemWHEN IS POSITIVE[...]WHEN IS NEGATIVE[...]WHEN IS ZEROEND-EVALUATE raise a compilation error. This instruction must be written: EVALUATE TRUEWHEN numeric-DataItem >...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Provide update to ZCEE request and response payloads in interceptors

Provide update access to the request and response payloads within an interceptor module. This is to provide simple support for encryption / decryption, tokenization, and other security functions. The data would be decrypted by the pre-invoke metho...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Not under consideration

Event Management

SA should support specifying more attributes to feed Event management. Examples include policy to define a key for deduplication, recipient, category, severity, filtering criteria, time windows and more. Also SA should ship the "standard" events o...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Message automation should be multiuser capable and dynamically updateable

Multiple users should be able to define message automation. Activation and deactivation of message automation should be independent from the rest of the policy and also dynamically without the need to code NetView Automation Table statements.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration