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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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Users want to know when they need to rebind their IBM File Manager for z/OS packages

[Current Product & Version]-IBM File Manager for z/OS V15 -z/OS V2.5-Db2 12 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is planning to upgrade Db2 for z/OS and IBM File Manager for z/OS. PLAN(yyyy/...
4 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

TWS user id is unable to impersonate to job user on NFS v4

TWS userID on zCentric agents is unable to impersonate to job user on NFS v4, but it works fine on NFS v3. There is a restriction for "setuid" on NFS v4, so TWS agent if installed on NFS v4 is able to the run jobs only as TWS user. Jobs with other...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Request for Adding “luname” Field to Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDz V16.0

In IDz V14.1, when connecting to the z/OS using the Host Connection Emulator (HCE), it was possible to specify the “luname” within the extended host connection properties. However, in IDz V16.0, when connecting to the z/OS using Remote Connection ...
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

RMFIII report STORM in CDP

Could we have RMFIII report STORM in CDP ? we currently have STORR STORC and STORF , but STORM is missing . kind regards Régis
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

Automated build process for CICS Web Services (wsbind files), XML Transforms (xsdbind files) and JSON Transforms (jsbind files)

We are working on modernizing our environment by transitioning to an CI/CD Pipeline in conjunction with a modern source code management tool. Currently there is no ability to automate the build of CICS Web Services, XML transform and JSON transfor...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 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

Use PgmModuleMap.txt for IMS TM besides JCL

There is now way to map IMS TM program to an differently named entrymodule in ADDI (besides decisions that can't be automated) when the Main and entry module has different names. This result in analyze chain being broken and part of the value of A...
2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

COBOL source input stored as compressed encrypted part of load module

Hi, to avoid loss of COBOL (or any other) source code in the future can the IBM compilers please generate a load module that stores inside it the full COBOL source input in a compressed and encrypted form which is then wrapped and protected before...
2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Under review

allow STCKE columns on table MVS_ZCONNECT_T to be pulled as a timestamp using SQL

These columns on table MVS_ZCONNECT_T are not usable, because they cannot be selected as a readable value using DB2 mainframe SQL. TIME_ZC_ENTRY_E TIME_ZC_EXIT_E TIME_SOR_SENT_E TIME_SOR_RECV_E I was asked to submit a RFE for this, but I did find ...
9 months ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

API Requester support for additional content-type

Currently, API Requester only supports a content-type of application/json We have teams that require to be able to call REST APIs with content-types other than the one currently supported:multipart/form-dataapplication/x-www-form-urlencodedapplica...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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