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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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UKO Certificate Management

As a Key Manager I can view and manage certificates within UKO Key Management Use Cases: Generating private/public key pairs Generating CSRs Importing certificates from a CA Distributing keys and certificates (including the chain to a root) to HPC...
about 1 year ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Workstation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

64 Bit Addressing for Full Function DB Buffer Pools

Exploitation of 64 bit address space for Full Function DB for both OSAM and VSAM buffer pools (similar to current DB2's capabiltities).
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

Provide a new option for how CICS should recover from a storage violation

Why is it useful? If I enable all CICS storage protection options (RENTPGM=PROTECT STGPROT=YES TRANISO=YES), define all programs with EXECKEY=USER, and define all transactions with ISOLATE=YES, I can be reasonably confident that any victim task of...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide a DELETE option for the STOP SECONDARY, and a NOCOPY option for the START SECONDARY script statements

As an MGM4SITE environment with external LCP, we have regular resiliency tests where we failover from one region to the other (REG-A to REG-B). When we do this we have to terminate the copy to the LCP source disk in the old recovery region (REG-B)...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Create a Data Set Commander Messages Manual

Currently if there are Data Set Commander issues, it is difficult to find the DSC messages explanation and some of the messages can not even be found in IBM site or via Google. It is important to have an up-to-date messages manual to be available.
about 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Future consideration

lengthen the USRPSW field

For security purposes, password requirements have become more stringent. A requirement for a password longer than 31 characters would not be out of the question. For these reasons I believe the 'USRPSW' field in the 'USRREC' parm should be made to...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

IMS Archive Enhancements

- Add a new option to the archive function for retention days to specify keeping records. The records are not archived (not deleted and not written to a file) that are generated within the retention days. - Add a new function DUMP. It is just writ...
2 months ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

List Omegamon products and versions in Configuration Manager (like PARMGEN).

In PARMGEN, when selection option 3.1 (Set up/Refresh PARMGEN work environment), a list would be shown of all Omegamon products and versions installed in the selected target datasets. With Configuration Manager (CFM) there is no such list, and now...
3 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Auto mapping

Considering that there will be many fields, manually linking/mapping needs lots of efforts. If customer provide a mapping information (such like excel where API field name and COBOL field name are provided), can the toolkit imports excel file and ...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 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...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration