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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 func" of an Application parameter would be good to the Error Handler layout (ended-in-error-list)

Hello, I would have a suggestion for the TWS ended-in-error-list layout. In the TWS error handler, usually we set the required fields which help us for the error handling. It usually depends on the design how a customer use the Scheduler tool. ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration

Clear command for IWS selection panels (ISPF dialog)

For the IWSz ISPF dialog a new primary command (CLEAR or RESET) should be implemented for all selection panels (e.g. EQQASELP, EQQSOPFP, ..) that clears all input fields or resets them to the default value. Use case:Because of new functionality th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enable Fault Analyzer extension on VS Code marketplace

We're enabling various extensions on VS Code IDE and is looking for the extension of IBM Fault Analyzer so it can be installed in VS Code to enable user running abend analysis from the product.
about 2 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1

CICS policies - Suspend time policy rule for user task

CICS policies currently don't have an option to take action on an user task based on Suspend time. Even though RTA has this setup , cost of implementing RTA and its process is not as efficient as CICS policies. Hence Im making a request to IBM to ...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Future consideration

Password encryption on dex.yaml

Noticed that in dex.yaml the LDAP bind password is plain text . We should never use plain text password which is GIS violation. Please provide fix to use encrypted password or any other method where we don't have to use plain text password in dex....
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

GDPS and LCP reporting

We don't want to face errors when using GDPS and LCP. First suggestion.We ask for a way to automatically monitor and a proactive report on the virtual Capacity used values before a volumes Safe Guarded Capacity(SGC) runs full. Today in GDPS panel ...
almost 4 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

Need API Requester Project creation in IDz

The Service and API archive projects are created using the primary menu option, File, and selecting “z/OS Connect EE Service Project” or “z/OS Connect EE API Project” respectfully in IDz. Using these functions generates projects specially setup fo...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 10 Future consideration

Optimize tagged heap lookup service routine.

Currently tpf_eheap_tag() and tpf_eheap_locate() are convenient APIs to retrieve heap buffer addresses across an ECB's lifetime. The tpf_eheap_locate() service routine in the CP executes a sequential search through all heap buffers until the provi...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Increase the maximum supported SafeGuarded Copy captures beyond the current 500

The current limit of 500 SGC captures means we have to have a trade-off between the frequency of captures, and the retention period of those captures. We have currently have a company-wide requirement for 7 days retention, which means we are limit...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

JSON PARSE WITH DETAIL specified at run time

It would be helpful if WITH DETAIL phrase of JSON PARSE can be enabled/disabled at run time by application logic. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in...
9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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