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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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Dual control function for DASD Config

Within the DS8K there is protection in place that a (malicious) person is not able to delete/alter devices that are part of safeguarded copies. We have a cybervault LCP setup to ensure we have immutable backups of our systems, and activated Dual C...
4 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

z/OS Connect - EntireX - Natural integration

It is requested to enhance the z/OS Connect product to provide API-REST interfaces to Natural modules and to allow API-REST interfaces to be invoked from Natural modules.Currently, the product is designed to provide API-REST interfaces to COBOL pr...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future 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

GDPS Granular security for Panels

Instead of having just access or no access to the GDPS panels it would be nice to grant Read or Update access to specific functions.
about 7 years ago in GDPS 13 Planned for future release

Test Case result viewer should be codepage aware

If you are working with national codepages – ex IBM-278 for Swedish – then files in UTF8, that is for instance local files from Git can contain national characters. An example of this is Å. Å in IBM-278 has the same hex value (0x5b) as $ in US cod...
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Program Type in results should be accurate

If you specify DB2 or IMS and run the testcase, the zUnit results editor always shows BTCH, meaning the options DB2 or IMS which you chose in the generation phase are not reflected in the results
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Only able to record testcases from a single loadmodule

We are having the same program linked into multiple loadmodules. We would like to record testcases from all loadmodules, but after the first recording, the record dialogue has the Program name locked. And according to instrcuctions, the "Program n...
4 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Display JOBSUBMISSION status command

Need a modify or display command similar to F subsys,STATUS or F subsys,STATUS,SUBTASK displaying current status of each job submission option HOST, FT, z-centric and all HTTP workstations.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Make parm ISSUE681=xx also available in an IMS/DC environment

Hi, Option ISSUE681=xx - which specifies the number of DFS681I messages per second within a batch or BMP region - is only available in a IMS DB/DC environment. Due to massive checkpoints in our IMS/DC system, we regularly experienced delays on IMS...
8 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

SMF 110 Data to include Lock Details

We recently have had several problems related to LM waits and security delays but have not been able to use SMF data to identify the cause of the LM waits. If we're lucky enough to get a dump we might be able to see tasks waiting on a US lock, but...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration