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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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Support External JWTs in CICS

Hello, in our company JWT is a standard for authentication. But unfortunately the JWTs come not from RACF instead they are from a vendor tool called ForgeRock. To use this standard authentication method we need JWT support in CICS for JWT which ar...
22 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

HACPEE support on Openshift

We need HACPEE support on Openshift and images available on Openshift catalog
5 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 4 Planned for future release

new function returning an updated date in pattern p with a given date in pattern p updated by days d

It could work as follows: daysUpdate( x, d, p ) - returning an updated (by d days) date in pattern p given a date x in pattern p and correspondingly secondsUpdate( x, s, p ) which would do the same for a time
9 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Creating a specific communications about HIPER and PE in in IBM Communications (Informational / Software) received from IBM My Notifications Portal

We receive communications from IBM My Notifications Portal. Adding filter about a specific product (IMS for our case) is possible. But there is no way to add a filter about the classification of the APARS . Is it possible to create a specific comm...
18 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Needs more information

Adding the classification of APAR(PE/HIPER) in IBM Communications (Informational / Software) received from IBM My Notifications Portal

When we receive IBM notifications mails (when subscribed to IBM My Notifications) the APARs titles don't contain the classifications of the APAR (HIPER/PE). In order to make it easier for us to identify the urgent/important APARs quickly and on ti...
18 days ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

Cobol syntactic analyzer to handle multiple ENTRY statements

Any ENTRY statement in a Cobol program is detected by the syntactic analyzer as unreacheable code when previous code contains a GOBACK. However, a program with an entry doesn't necessarily begin from the PROCEDURE DIVISION. Any ENTRY can be used a...
24 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Include *.streams.json and *.protocols.json to FMID HHBO510

Would be possible to include *.streams.json and *.protocols.json to the FMID HHBO510 ZFS file? With version 2.1.0, they were included in the ZFS file and the users using ADCD stack (IBM Z Development & Test Environment) were able to use all fu...
4 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

new function for updating a date by days and the result is a workday

addWorkdays( n, d, p, t [ , tx ] ) - Where n is the count of workdays, d is the date (e.g. '20250327'), p is the pattern (e.g.'YYYYMMDD'), t is a table of holidays, and tx is an optional second table of holidays.
7 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

new builtin-function returning the last day of the month

In some situations it is necessary to know the last day of a month, so a new function would be usefull: endofmonth( x, p ) returns a date in format p with the day value changed from that in x to the last day of the month
10 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

new builtin function checking leap year

Would it make easier to handle date calculations in PLI, e.g. isleap( x, p ) returns true if the date x in format p specifies a leap year
10 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release