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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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JSONGET handling for null

Please provide options for how to handle special value ‘null’ while parsing a JSON document using JSONGET* functions. It can be important to understand the difference between zero and null in numeric fields. Currently there is no way to interpret ...
11 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add system rule in CICS policy for DSA usage

Monitor CICS DSA/EDSA/GDSA usage is critical. Service impact would be induced if CICS SOS reached. Suggest to add DSA/EDSA/GDSA threshold in CICS system policy rule for early detection
2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Add the support for TFP report

IntelliMagic Vision provides SCRT report and Usage 4 Hour Rolling Average report, but TFP report is not provided.Would you add the support for TFP report?
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IntelliMagic Vision Japanese panel support

Please add the Japanese panels for IntelliMagic. Our customers want to have Japanese panels, such as report title, description and help. It may be the inhibitor to promote IntelliMagic Vision in Japan. Our competitor have Japanese panels.
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Please add the support for zLinux as IntelliMagic server when using on-premises version

Now only Windows server is supportable as on-premises server for IntelliMagic. Our customer wants to use it on zLinux.
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Please add the function to report IMS performance from IMS SLDS or OLDS.

Now IMS PA or MainView for IMS are required to report IMS performance by IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS. But some customers don't use IMS PA nor MainView and it should be the inhibitor to promote IMV.Please add the function for IMV to stream the dat...
2 months ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Launch “User Build” for more than one cobol program at a time.

It would be very useful to be able to run the “DBB” for more than one program at a time. That is, select two or more cobol programs, right click and launch a dependency based build for these two selected programs. I understand the problem with the...
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build / Editors / VSCODE 1 Future consideration

SMF records type 70 for Crypto should show show the nickname CEX8C instead of binary value x'13'

R7023CT OFFSET 1 LENGTH 1 BINARY, -- Binary Crypto processor type -- X'03' = PCICC PQ78777 -- X'05' = PCIXCC (z990 only) PQ78777 -- X'07' = CEX2C à10A -- X'09' = CEX3C à10A -- X'10' = CEX4C à16A -- X'11' = CEX5C à21a -- X'12' = CEX6C à23A Manipula...
11 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Not under consideration

Support for 27 x 132 screen size in Workload Scheduler

Alternative idea for this idea (Rearrange ACTUAL START field from panel EQQSOP2L to panel EQQSOP1L [ZWS-I-266]), to have fields from EQQSOP1L and EQQSOP2L on one screen when using 27x132 screen size.
5 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

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