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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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UNCOND option support for a GSAM resource in IMS managed ACB environment

In a management ACB environment, our customers must execute IMS Catalog Populate utility (DFS3PU00) or ACB Generation and Catalog Populate utility (DFS3UACB) when they update existing PSB/DBD resources. However, sometimes they need to fall back th...
8 months ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Is a defect

Maximum size of HLQ.RKC2HIST limited to 4 GB

The Poste Italiane customer processes millions of transactions at hour and the history RKC2HIST dataset of 4 GB the depth of the historical data on the most important CICS is only 2 hours. The customer would like to be able to allocate the dataset...
8 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Override ConnectionRef in .ara file to address multiple RESTFul endpoints

API Requester scenario. 2 different environments , SVIL1 and SVIL2, sharing the same ZCNEE instance. There are 2 RESTful endpoints, one for SVIL1 and one for SVIL2 (they can also be API managers, like APIConnect) The same CICS program is deployed ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Planned for future release

Open source language server(s) in IBM Z Open Editor

Not entirely sure if the source for the LSP implementations are made openly available, so please close this off it is. Open sourcing the LSPs for JCL, REXX, COB, ASM, will allow them to be used as extensions to other IDEs.VS Code is popular due to...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Security for commands through OM (OCM) on resource level. UPD TRAN NAME(MYTRAN) ... IMS.CSLPLEX.UPD.TRAN.MYTRAN

When application programmers will make commands from ZOWE, Ansible etc. it will be necessary to protect resources so a programmer could only work with her/his own resources. Even for Type-1 commands through OM (OCM) and CIMS/DIMS for DIS TRAN MYTR...
about 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Different methods to connect with IDZ Debugger

Our new VPN software is not functioning with the TCP connection or does not allow connectivity through the IP address/port number. Looking for alternative methods of connecting IDZ Debugger session back to the user when TCP connection is unavailable.
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 0 Under review

Increase ITOMWeb the 40 character limitation to 100 characters in the password dialog box.

RACF currently supports 100 characters for passphrases and allowing ITOMweb to match this limit aligns them with this RACF limitation. This would allow users to have a secure password / passphrase created and used by all of our IBM products.
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Expand HLASM macro display by command

For a debugging session of an HLASM module, we currently have to decide whether to expand all macros (i.e. show the code they generate) or only show the macro call itself. The first option renders the display nearly useless, because of the sheer n...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add support for the HTTP method PATCH in API requester

As of z/OS Connect EE v3.0.9, the API requester function only supports 6 HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD and OPTIONS. So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Planned for future release

Automatic or assistance function for handling submitted jobs' status 'missing' after maintanance

We are running 50k+ batch jobs under IBM workload scheduler control everyday and hardly can find a clean window without any batch running for host maintenance (rolling IPL) or IBM workload scheduler itself recycling. We usually found those submitt...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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