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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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Host code-page 838Thai with Windows regional format as English

Users will get more benefit if PCOMM can support 838Thai with Windows regional format as English because users will not manually switch regional format between English and Thai when they use Microsoft Excel.
5 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Support multiple callouts in the same interaction when using IMS Transaction Orchestration

IMS Transaction Orchestration enable IMS transactions to make callouts asynchronously while the original IMS client is kept waiting. But only one callout can be made in one interaction. We use IMS Transaction Orchestration to enable IMS applicatio...
about 2 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Future consideration

Add the support for UNIX Product Suites

It's useful because the Customer have some software with USS component and the Product don't perform correctly all the components
about 2 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

Support live resize and live guest relocation for on-boarded z/VM virtual machines

With ICIC previous implementation, on-boarded z/VM virtual machine is not able to be live resize and live guest migration, due to lack of IUCV server running in the virtual machine. We can install the IUCV server into the on-boarded virtual machin...
4 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

DWC Connection Engine Admin Role

We are using a separate DWC instance on each sysplex to connect operators to different controllers.The responsible systems programmer has created connection engines.When the systems programmer was off on vacation, we wanted to lookup the connectio...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CICS should execute the EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO command under the EXECKEY of requesting program to honor CICS storage protection.

Currently when a USERKEY task executes an EXEC CICS GET CONTAINER INTO if the receiving data area is smaller than the container data the program creates a storage violation. Because CICS processes the GET CONTAINER command on behalf of the task, a...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Format the saved packet trace information to show the TLS handshake

We would like to be able to display the TLS handshake information and the supported cypher suite in a network connection, in the formatted packet trace, something like this:Record 1 Protocol ........ HANDSHAKE ( x'16' ) Version ......... TLS 1.2 L...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 3 Future consideration

UserBuild execution from source code Mainframe remote PDSs

IDz does not allow to execute UserBuild with Cobol programs stored in PDSs directly. That functionality is only allowed in local project source files. Any developer that wants to execute an UserBuild on a PDS source program will need to: Have a cr...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

MGM resiliency in recovery region

With MzGM 4-SITE we had resiliency in our recovery region for disk. For example, if C disk (XRC secondaries) died, GDPS/Metro in that region could Hyperswap to D disk and XRC would remain up, capable both of building DR and of doing our daily requ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Allow more flexibility in the location of DFHAPIR

As currently designed, DFHAPIR can only be found as a single member name in a z/OS PARMLIB list. As CICS systems programmers, we normally don't have access to z/OS libraries so making changes requires change requests and possibly days between upda...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration