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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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Kafka UI for DG

Kafka UI offers several advantages that can significantly enhance the management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of your Kafka environment. Advantages : Real-time Monitoring: Kafka UI provides real-time metrics and status of Kafka brokers, topics...
4 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide COBOL support for YAML and utility to convert DTD to a COBOL record definition,

We have a data structure/format in .YAML /YML file. And require ability/utility to convert YML DTD to a COBOL equivalent copybook
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

add SLES support for zD&T

Currently all of zD&T is only officially supported w/RHEL or Ubuntu - missing SLES. Clients who have standardized their IT on SLES, esp. in regulated industries, cannot run zD&T in a supported manner. It would be good to get SLES support f...
about 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

high availability and resiliency for messages sent via MQ descriptors (TYPE=MQSERIES)

We have got applications sending messages via CHNG/ISRT calls on MQ descriptors ( IBM MQ Parameter TYPE=MQSERIES ) Subparameter MQRTQMGR=mqmd_replytoqmgr specifies the MQMD_REPLYTOQMGR value. When operating within a PLEX-environment (MVS-Plex, ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Not under consideration

Add new system rule 'monitor DSA/EDSA'

Currently, monitoring of DSA/EDSA in rule of policy is done at task level (task rule) I would be interesting to have same monitoring at region level (system rule)
5 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Identify and Terminate dropped connections to IMS

Currently if an IMS user loses their connection to the internet they remain logged in to IMS. This prevents them from logging back in. Currently the lowest ASOT and ALOT values of 10 do not provide the ability to immediately cleanup dropped sessio...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

WLM posibility in zosconnect_cicsConnectionGroup element

We have seen in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-cics-ipic-workload-distribution that the idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZCEE-I-153 has been solved by the RoundRobin algorithm (which...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Modify PIPESCAN mechanism similar to PHASEIN

Hi, customer is having some problems during PIPESCAN process when the CICS workload is too high. While the webservice is updating, if the webservice is in use, as the process is not able to free the used resource, the update process could take sev...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Distributed Gateway on AWS EKS

It is critical for customers who are committed to AWS and need to provide monitoring and observability capabilities for MainFrame
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration