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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 CEC info to GDPS panel VPCPSTD1

GDPS panel VPCPSTD1 includes an 8 char column with LPARname. However, from this panel an user cannot determine which CEC an LPAR is defined on.It is possible to have duplicate LPARnames on different CECs. This is useful if system instances are mov...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 12 Planned for future release

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

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

JSONGET handling for null

Please provide options for how to handle special value ‘null’ while parsing a JSON document using JSONGET* functions. It can be important to understand the difference between zero and null in numeric fields. Currently there is no way to interpret ...
9 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Improvements to the GROUP keyword used in the SYSPLEX verb

We would like the ability to have enhanced selection criteria for the GROUP statement in the SYSPLEX verb. As an example during Site Switch, we shutdown the whole of a SITE with the exception of certain systems, it would be useful to have a statem...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

SMF records type 70 for Crypto should show show the nickname CEX8C instead of binary value x'13'

R7023CT OFFSET 1 LENGTH 1 BINARY, -- Binary Crypto processor type -- X'03' = PCICC PQ78777 -- X'05' = PCIXCC (z990 only) PQ78777 -- X'07' = CEX2C à10A -- X'09' = CEX3C à10A -- X'10' = CEX4C à16A -- X'11' = CEX5C à21a -- X'12' = CEX6C à23A Manipula...
9 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Not under consideration

Tolerate unknown elements for SOAP web services

One of our web service applications is getting a DFHPI1007 error calling a remote service from CICS (so CICS is the web service consumer). It turned out, that the server system added some optional elements to their web service response in their re...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to control when MONITOR1 interval runs.

We would like the ability to control when MONITOR1 interval runs to avoid it running at the same time when we have multiple GDPS K-systems hosted on the same CEC.
about 1 year ago in GDPS 11 Not under 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

Common Extract Format for CSD, Bundles, and BAS

Provide a common extract format for CICS resource definitions, so that we can write internal audit and resource checks against the definitions, regardless of their source. The intent is to read all resources that have been staged so that we can pr...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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