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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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Programmatically Update Monitor INTERVAL Start via AUTLCP1

There is no way currently to accurately set the timer on an ad hoc basis. Essentially the timer starts when the Interval value is updated or when a master switch occurs. In our use case, we have set up alerts for Partial Captures via GEO2976I, but...
9 months ago in GDPS 1 Planned for future release

Clear command for IWS selection panels (ISPF dialog)

For the IWSz ISPF dialog a new primary command (CLEAR or RESET) should be implemented for all selection panels (e.g. EQQASELP, EQQSOPFP, ..) that clears all input fields or resets them to the default value. Use case:Because of new functionality th...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IMS TM Resource Adapter compatible with Java 17 and Jakarta EE (Jakarta Connectors)

We currently migrating APIs SpringBoot applications from Java version 8 to 17. Currently, we are using IBM Liberty Host and IBM IMS TM Resource Adapter (JCA 1.7) to integrate with IMS 15.1 with Java version 8. However, we need to migrate to Java v...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Increase the maximum supported SafeGuarded Copy captures beyond the current 500

The current limit of 500 SGC captures means we have to have a trade-off between the frequency of captures, and the retention period of those captures. We have currently have a company-wide requirement for 7 days retention, which means we are limit...
over 2 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

Add MQ Version to OMEG MQ entry panel KMQSTRTI

We operate MQ subsystems in different versions To have an overview on which MQ version level a system is, we would like to see this in Panel KMQSTRTI - IBM MQ Queue Manager Status (displaycols, sortcols and filtercols). p.e. MQVERSION from table K...
8 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Messaging on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Increase size of DB2 column LF_LNAME in table LOGICAL_FILE to accomodate larger input file names.

Currently the column LOGICAL_FILE.LF_LNAME is set to CHAR(32) in the DBB DB2 metadata store. In some situations this causes DB2 error (SQLCODE=-302, SQLSTATE=22001) when trying to use files with names longer than 32 characters. The only solution t...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Planned for future release

support binder date for pdse member generations

a pdse member generation 0 one can see the binder date but with other generations (-1, -2 etc), this information is not available (using Data Set Commander)
6 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Future 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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 3 Future consideration

Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 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...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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