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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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    Have FCWITHDRAW check if volumes are online

    When running a script to take a TESTCOPY, the first step is to do a FCWITHDRAW of the existing flashcopy. If a system is active using this TESTCOPY, this will cause I/O errors and may cause the system to crash. The TESTCOPY CAPTURE runs, but it pe...
    over 1 year ago in GDPS 12 Future consideration

    Callable Services & Other Ressources Access security and Traceability

    Callable services run within the CICS environment. In certain cases—such as ICSF—these services are critical, and so are the associated keys safeguarded in the Key Data Set (KDS). When a transaction performs encryption, CICS is granted access to t...
    about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

    Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

    Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
    over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

    Support for PL/I

    Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
    about 1 year ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing 1 Future consideration

    RSEAPI/RSE should not alter the 'referenced date' of datasets when they are listed via z/OS Explorer (Eclipse/VS Code).

    When users list Datasets through Eclipse/VSCode, the "referenced date" for all listed datasets are inadvertently updated to the current date. This happens even though no dataset was browsed, viewed or edited. This behavior has a significant impact...
    4 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

    RDS (EQARMTD) and zOpenDebug are not currently sysplex-aware, so they can't redirect our debug request, and we cannot always pick up IMS transactions for debug.

    We have an issue using the z/OS Debugger in VS Code, due to our setup in Test where we have two LPAR’s in a Sysplex. Since our IMS transactions are automatically placed on either LPAR, we need to be able to pick up the transaction from either LPAR...
    6 months ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    When allocation/open fails DFHFC0500, display conflict information somewhere

    Right now, when this situation occurs, it is sometimes difficult and labor intensive to figure out why this happened. Sometimees requiring scanning SMF data, looking at dumps, etc. Would be helpful to display the conflict information (usually zOS ...
    3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

    Cics should support HTTP/2

    there is many vulnerabilities in HTTP/1.1 and it will be nice if CICS do support HTTP/2
    4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

    Stig RACF-ES-000200 and CICS users

    Hi, We run hundreds of CICS regions unser the same Grp , however the STIG rule ES-000200 is as follow : CSVLLAS_uca_permits rule: UPDATE and higher access to a resource protected by a FACILITY class CSVLLA.dsname profile allows users to work with ...
    7 months ago in zSecure / zSecure Audit 0 Future consideration

    Limit IRLM lock timeout function only to IFP regions

    In Japan, most of the bank customers use application framework called SAIL which is a GBS Japan's asset, running in their production core banking systems. It runs as MPP for SAIL control regions and IFP for application regions under control of SAI...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration

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