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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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Add an LPAR's CSS and MIF ID to the output of zinfo command

It would be great if an LPAR's CSS and MIF ID could be added to the output of the zinfo command, or even the LP ID. Probably would make the most sense under the sys section.
22 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Make it possible to insert certificates for 3270-server from web-based interface

It is common to connect to specific services in a z/OS-instance by 3270 terminal. These connections are secured by self-signed certificates only. It is easy to create a certificate for such an instance, but hard to apply it to an instance. Simplif...
22 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Make TLS-level to ADCD instances in Enterprise Edition of z Development & Test configurable via webbased interface

For high security requirements, it would be simple to allow an instance to accept TLS-1.3 connections only. Other could be simply switched to TLS-1.2 via webbased interface.
23 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Make TLS 1.2 default for all secure connections to zD&T instances derived from ADCD

In today's devops computing enviroments, compliance enforces minimum TLS 1.2 level for secure connections to them. But currently, ADCD instances for z/OS show up in security scans (Nexus) with TLS 1.0.
23 days ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

Renew a certificate in the ring without restart CTG

As indicated in case TS016643542, currently, when we modify a certificate in the RACF ring used by the CTG, it is necessary to restart the STC for detect it, which implies a loss of service. We think it would be interesting to have the possibility...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Allow passing a Volume with the Move and Copy utilities to use on uncatalogged datasets

During our DR customization, we load our DASD to a floor system to make changes prior to IPL, for example changing Profile parms for TCPIP so we come up with DR IP addresses, or pointing to a DR DNS (with a TCPDATA move) or IPLing with a different...
about 1 month ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

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.
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Under review

Change the timing of the first ASMTDLI call to shorten database unavailability during takeover phase

We are looking for a way to shorten the database unavailability during the Online Reorg takeover phase. At present, in some cases the database is unavailable for up to 3 minutes. ORF team investigated with IMS team, From the results of the investi...
3 months ago in IMS Online Reorganization Facility for z/OS / Product functionality 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...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
8 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration