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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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Add ability to remove specific CMDFLOW data from DB2 tables based on CMDFLOW_ID

When CMDFLOW data is loaded into the DB2 tables it can't easily be removed. There is no batch job or plugin capability to delete the records based on the CMDFLOW_ID. This means the table can't be cleaned up when work with the command flow is finis...
2 months ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Under review

Button switch hebrew/english

we have some problem with pcom to write in the same sentence in english and in hebrew the BID LTR or RTL is is difficult to use them and i think to work easier you must create a button at the top HEADER to swicth english to hebrew and the contrary...
2 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Under review

CC Quiesce for Planned HS

At a Planned HS and if GDPS detects CC's I would like to get an WTOR with the Information how many CC are active and the options Quiesce HS, Abort HS, Cancel CC's or Repeat the WTOR to see if there are more or less CC's active.
over 6 years ago in GDPS 19 Not under consideration

Tolerant Reading web service requesters

Put elements not known by a SOAP/XML web service requester in their XML form in a separate container and do not validate if the the elements are defined. Only map those elements that are known.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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

SAF data set access check for target task's user profile to consider access of user profile for the task from which the command originated.

When using EXCMD to route a dataset update through an autotask, we have noticed that the access used is the access of the autotask itself, rather than the orignating user. This means that a user could maliciously update datasets just by routing th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / All components 0 Future consideration

Display Origination APPLID in Task History screen (KCPTASH)

In a complex CICS environment where hundreds of regions route workload dynamically with CPSM things get hard to track where work came from. CICS provided a SMF field OAPPLID to tell us where the current transaction originated from. Can you please ...
9 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

IWS CPU usage improvement for ETT data set CLOSE events

Each IWS tracker subsystem on z/OS gets control during data set CLOSE processing in order to check, if this event is related to an ETT-defined data set (ETT = Event Triggered Tracking) in the EQQDSLST-file.If EQQDSLST contains many entries (severa...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

zCDP Logforwarder to support JES Spool Compression

Support for JES2 spool compression was introduced in z/OS V2R4. Compression can potentially improve system performance and increase capacity by reducing the amount of data that must be written to and read from SPOOL. Data is compressed as it is wr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Future consideration