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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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Enable AMODE(64) support in COBOL

Current CICS TS releases do not support AMODE(64) COBOL. The EXEC CICS GETMAIN64 command is for use only in non-LE AMODE(64) Assembler application programs. We would like to have that support in COBOL as well, which would benefit us to leverage th...
6 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Submitted

new function for updating a date by days and the result is a workday

addWorkdays( n, d, p, t [ , tx ] ) - Where n is the count of workdays, d is the date (e.g. '20250327'), p is the pattern (e.g.'YYYYMMDD'), t is a table of holidays, and tx is an optional second table of holidays.
9 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Reporting on SGC capture status

Reporting on SGC capture status needs to be improved. Currently there is no IBM provided automated option to query or report on capture completeness. Only option is manually checking Netlog or the LCP/SGC GDPS panels. To determine if a capture is ...
5 months ago in GDPS 9 Future consideration

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
about 1 year ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration

Extending CICS SMF records with relation between transaction and programs

Hello, we are currently looking into our application which transaction is calling which programs. This is not easy to find out because there is currently no information about that relation in CICS statistics. The CICS statistics already shows whic...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Submitted

ROUTOPS PROXY support for Remote Workstations on IWA/d

When setting up a remote workstation on IWS/z, where the agent is on IWS/d in Kubernetes, it is often front ended by a Kubernetes Ingress. This restricts the number of open ports to communicate with applications within the containerised world. Thi...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Include *.streams.json and *.protocols.json to FMID HHBO510

Would be possible to include *.streams.json and *.protocols.json to the FMID HHBO510 ZFS file? With version 2.1.0, they were included in the ZFS file and the users using ADCD stack (IBM Z Development & Test Environment) were able to use all fu...
6 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

new function to calculate the number of days between two dates

daysDiff( x, y, p ) which would return the number of days between 2 dates and correspondingly secondsDiff( x, y, p ) which would return the number of seconds before 2 times (or dates)
11 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

use the weekday builtin function with two parameters(date x, format p)

This would be an easier way to use the function weekday: weekday( x, p ) returns weekday( days( x, p ) )
11 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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