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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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Provide option to apply GKB updates outside of SMP/E if that is the customer preference

Previously, monthly GKB updates were provided by a file which could be uploaded to reflect updated/changed products. However this was recently changed to enforce the use of SMP/E to apply GKB updates. This does not work in our shop for the followi...
20 days ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 1 Under review

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 ...
28 days ago in GDPS 0 Submitted

Silent printing using Print API

The ability to print a document(s) received using the print API without having the user to use the print preview on their browser for each document sent. current applicative solution is a pop-up window on the client side browser holding the HTML c...
8 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

.NET Core+ versions of EntireX DLLs

Microsoft has been clear for sometime that .NET Core and beyond is where their support for the .NET platform lies now. The .NET versions of the EntireX runtimes have languished in .NET Framework with no sign of .NET Core support. If you're serious...
9 days ago in EntireX 1 Submitted

Cobol Json Parse / Json Generate not reversible when working with Numeric Edited Fields

Hello, I would like to mention again 2 old Cases from me (TS010652468 and TS016864176), because the problem happened again with another Developer. Can you please check the last Case (TS016864176), where some discussion took place and IBM decided t...
29 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Under review

In XTDOUT exits I would like to have access to the array of segment address/length pairs of all segments for multi-segment TD messages on the first invocation of the exit.

When the first segment of a multi-segment TD message arrived in my XTDOUT exit I can see in the dump that there's an array with pointers to each segment followed by the length of the segment. All segments appear to also be there even though it the...
about 2 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add to Cics policies the ability to include or exclude specific transaction names.

We need to specify Cics policies to cancel transactions that exceed a specific response time, excluding some long-running ones or those with another allowed threshold. For example, all A* transactions can last for 5 seconds at most, except for ABC...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

Create tape datasets from Python API to ZOAU

In zOS there are two types of hardware datasets, the datasets that exist on Direct Access Devices (DISKs) and datasets that exist on TAPES. Data in datasets can be too large to be housed on DISKs, so the datasets are put on Tapes so that they don'...
9 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

CSM supports Metro Mirror with Site 4 replication, can GDPS support this configuration, too?

According to DORA regulation, it is possible to have a 2-region infrastructure with the possibility to have a synchronous copy between them, an MTMM 4-Site. This gives one the chance to do a region switch with no disruption to the customers. Nowad...
6 months ago in GDPS 1 Future consideration

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE

Bring the Host Connection Emulator HCE back into IDz. Its just better than RCE. Our developers are used to HCE and what it offers. RCE is just not at its level and therefore the developers won't switch to IDz 16.0 unless the HCE is in there.
4 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Under review

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