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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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Reduce IMS ECSA Consumption when using DC Mon on busy systems.

When DC Monitor is started for the first time on a busy IMS system, we observe ECSA growth of several MB, which is not released when DC Monitor is stopped.
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Editing of Data Structures outside of API Toolkit.

Document in KC not to manually edit underlying output of the API toolkit.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS Enhanced Security Authentication

Our internal security requirements team have asked us to reach out to IBM to request Enhanced CICS Security Authentication
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CICS/VR RLS recovery bypass catalog update requirement

Currently, CICS VR will attempt to use VSAM RLS services ( IDARRST ) to set the recovery required bit in the catalog entry if it determines the dataset might be RLS. This requires that the user running the recovery have update access to the datase...
over 5 years ago in CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Group and List operations impossible with CICS Explorer

- Impossible to do an APPEND LIST to an inexistent LIST (in order to create a new list based upon an old one) - While doing and ADD GROUP(xxx) to LIST(yyy), it's not possible to specify AFTER or BEFORE an other Group - Impossible to copy a whole g...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Ability to use any kind of data format, not only JSON

Currently in our industry; we and our clients adapt slow and when format is chosen it stays around, sometimes a bit too long. To address this we have a lot of different type of deliveries to external and internal clients. Some examples includes JS...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Rearrange CPS0 to make better use of EDAT-1

The CP is a high performance area and 60-70% of CPU processing takes place within it. The CP in zTPF is 2.5MB, the first MB is addressed via DAT but the remaining 1.5MB is addressed by EDAT-1. Therefore as a suggestion would it make sense to move ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

dynamically allocating memory for region pool and task shared pool

Please see the responses from the PMR below: IBM Update10/17/16 5:19 PMWe understand the customer update. However, dynamically allocating the memory for region pool and task shared pool is not supported for CICS environment. We verified the code a...
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

OTE, Threadsafe and Concurrency Statistics

As part of our threadsafe project, post execution, we review the changes to the programs' PPT definitions, after defining them as Concurrency: Threadsafe. We use: DFH0STAT, SMF 110 performance data and SYSVIEW. We review a number of statistics. Am...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Conifguration UI for Server XML.

A UI is required for all of the configuration elements in the server.xml for zOS Connect. In particular the zosconnect_localAdaptersConnectService and zosconnect_zosConnectService are immensely confusing and need wizards in the tooling for automat...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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