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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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Widescreen for BIDI characters

The option - Optimize for Widescreen is available Only for SBCS codepage display sessions not for DBCS or BIDI. Our users have been requesting such an option for many years and we finally thought that with version 15 we would have the option to gi...
6 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Future consideration

CEDA ADD GROUP( ) LIST( ) FIRST or LAST Attribute

We only have 2 options when we ADD group to List in CSD, i.e BEFORE and AFTER.It if difficult wjen you working on huge projects like 200 existing lists, which already contains groups.Ex: If we want to add DB2CONN group in list, it should be added ...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CICS statistics fields sometimes turn negative or don't make sense

One of the fields this problem happens to is Storage Manager: Dynamic Storage Areas Statistics field SMSGMREQ ( Getmain Requests ). By common sense, this field should never be negative. But the Cobol version of DFHSMSDS defines this field as signe...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

AD - Representing DL1 call graph/DB's in different annotation.

If common DL-1 service module “pgm-x’ having CBLTDLI is called by ‘pgm-1’ , ‘pgm-2’, ‘pgm-3’ for several business reasons, finally at the end AD generates 3 different call arrows towards different databases for same physical call in the service mo...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Running Distributed Gateway on zCX

Having Distributed Gateway running on zCX can help look into this solution a whole for Z. And there a much high processing power and more resources on Z than running on Kubernetes, it can help supporting huge transaction volumes for Mainframe appl...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Allow CICS to use 2GIG page frames

Hi, We are a heavy users of CICS Data tables. We load millions of records in many regions to Data tables. We observed that CICS uses all the real memory(4TB per Lpar limit) but still couldn't load all the data we would want. We then reached IBM C...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enhancements for validating DBB toolkit setup/configuration

Please consult the thread at https://github.com/IBM/dbb-zappbuild/discussions/466 I am often asked to validate things with regards to DBB/zAppBuild. Many of these tasks I manually do, though I have a few scripts of my own that do some of it. I rea...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

QRadar/SIEM integration

EKMF Web must generate security related events that can be consumed by IBM QRadar similar third-party SIEM systems. At minimum, these events must include- Logons, both success and failure- logoffs, when performed by a user, logoffs due to timout m...
about 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Future consideration

Select CICS Task History for a range of regions simultaneously.

Seeing the behaviour of a transaction in all CICS regions where it executes as opposed to one region at a time would simplify certain monitoring and trouble-shooting tasks. Being able to specify additional contexts for CICS Task History Summary - ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

CICS Counter API needs ability to list counters defined

The CICS Counter (and DCounter) APIs, give users the following commands: DEFINE COUNTER and DEFINE DCOUNTERDELETE COUNTER and DELETE DCOUNTERGET COUNTER and GET DCOUNTERQUERY COUNTER and QUERY DCOUNTERREWIND COUNTER and REWIND DCOUNTERUPDATE COUNT...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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