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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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PL/I support for Kafka SDK

Many customers use PL/I on Z. It would be good to have Kafka SDK support available to this language in addition to already available COBOL & C languages
7 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0 Submitted

When JAVA Guaranteed Message Delivery to Kafka queues Maximum Queue Depth is set high, MQ does not provide enough precision to alert for a production issue in a timely manner

ISSUE: One of our Customer's JAVA Guaranteed Message Delivery to Kafka queues Maximum Queue Depths are set high (and about to get higher), due to a requirement to store 36 hours of messages in the event of an extended destination outage. The minim...
8 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Support finding lower-case copybooks from USS directories

When compiling COBOL programs using the cob2 command in USS it is likely that the copybooks also reside in USS (because they are cloned from Git, for example). The current implementation only supports finding upper-case copybooks. It is, however, ...
29 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Portuguese language support

We have an opportunity at Banco Bradesco, which requires that watsonx Assistant for Z be able to interact with users in Portuguese. The expected information for support in Portuguese will probably be in 1H25. Would it be possible to bring this lau...
5 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

for zOS Connect similar to ZCEE-I-160 we need the PATCH option for OAS2. We don't have the ability to run API 3.0 and our users are trying to access vendors that use PATCH.

So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common in APIs, the PATCH HTTP method is more and more used. If only a set of values need to be updated, PATCH would be a more efficient...
2 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Enable tracing per API on zOS Connect OAS 3

Given that when enabling tracing (either binary or non binary), there's an impact on server performance, that affects all APIs deployed on that server, we'd like to have an option to enable tracing per api, so that when analyzing we'll only be imp...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Health Check about IC Definitions

We simulated a Site1-Outage in the Production but loose all Images sysplexwide (except the Master KSYS). IBM told us in the Case that we use not the newest Inital Clists (IC) for the Operators. It would be very helpful if a GDPS Health Check can c...
9 months ago in GDPS 13 Future consideration

Add MacOS support for locally installed client

We need MacOS support for the HoD locally installed client as part of our mainframe community work with MacOS.
22 days ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 0 Submitted

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
7 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Enhance IBM JZOS API to throw an exception when a Java application tries to read a corrupted VSAM dataset

As part of an application conversion from Assembler to Java, we've found an issue related to error handling where the JZOS API does not handle well. In our case it is related to accessing a corrupt VSAM file, and we've seen the same outcome when r...
15 days ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Submitted

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