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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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TPF Client channel does not support SSL

TPF is inquiring if there is any future possibility of adding SSL to our ZMQID DEF parms for our client channels to be defined securely. We are currently in a project with z/OS MQ and concerns are being raised creating channels without TLS on the ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Simplify Json builtin routines

1) We tried the json commands in PL/I, but sorry, they are programmer unfriendly. If I want to use them well I have to write a program around them and this is really not what I want. 2) a variable type json would be interesting ... sample json get...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

ZOS Connect to support OAuth1.0

Our team is trying to make call from Mainframes to APIs that were build on cloud, these APIs are being built behind OAuth 1.0. we see that ZOS Connect supports OAuth 2.0, Can IBM ZOSConnect support OAuth 1.0 calls, so that we donot need a proxy be...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

RDz v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism.

Rational Developer for System z v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism. The current extension point preprocessors are designed to be used only for describing text transformatio...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

To allow Windows Authentication in ADDI for SQL server

Hello Team, We are using Windows account to login into our servers and our SQL server for AD resides in different windows server.So to communicate between different application server we use windows authentication (which is mixed authentication mo...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Update batch reports CLI to not require full access to the database

We began piloting the command line reporting function for TWS and, through the support ticket noted, found out that in order for CLI reports to work with an Oracle database, the CLI must be granted access to the TWS object owner account. This is i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enable a batch recovery capability in IZBR

IZBR provides an inventory mechanism for various system backup solutions. Coupled with this is the ability to display and search the inventory from ISPF, select an appropriate file version and produce/execute an appropriate recovery command or job...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Batch Resiliency 0 Planned for future release

When a tran abends in a region, CPSM should not route any tran of the same WLM tran group to this target region

Description: FI had observed that following an abend of a transaction in a CICS region, CPSM was still routing transactions with different ids to the CICS region. CPSM currently allows the 'Acceptable level of abend probability' and the 'Acceptabl...
about 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Please enable TWS API to be compatible with Composer's text format

Currently all our schedule dumps are in Composer's text format and all the schedulers and teams in the bank are used to reading and understanding the text format. We would like to enquire for future roll outs, will TWS API be compatible with Compo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Inline __asm() to communicate ARCHLVL to HLASM for system macros

When a z/OS system macro is embedded in a __asm() block, HLASM assumes ARCHLVL=1 which means the macro will use base+displacement branching, which fails in an inline __asm() block due to "no active USING". Most macros implement a MF=E form which g...
over 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Not under consideration