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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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Validation of API Provider requests against the OpenAPI 3 specification

Enable validation of API Provider requests against the OpenAPI 3 specification. Since this will have a performance overhead, it should be fully configurable.
almost 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4+ - Add support for the equivalent of the -M option from the USS version of the compiler to the MVS version of the compiler

Hi, The USS version of the IBM Enterprise COBOL V6R4 compiler, cob2, has a -M option that allows to produce a makefile of dependencies between the program and the copybooks it uses: mkdepend.o: mkdepend.cbl mkdepend.o: /home/usera/test/f171592/WSC...
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Integration in the SMF_099 record definition (SRM/WLM) of information related to SubType 14 (HiperDispatch Topology) and load them in a new KPMZ table

Integration in the SMF_099 record definition (SRM/WLM) of information related to SubType 14 (HiperDispatch Topology). This will let us get information on the processor Topology of each LPAR and their evolution to better follow & understand var...
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

IDz V16.0.1 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator

IDz V16 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator : IDz V16 keys keyboard mapping for short cut is not there in Remote connection Emulator - ex use of letters is not available (Ctrl+Shift+Z). This can be included.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 4 Future consideration

User Build - Automatically upload additional dependent files when changed

For VS Code it is possible to define additionalDependencies necessary to execute an User Build in zapp.yaml. The defined files / directories are uploaded to the z/OS-workspace while running "Setup for IBM User Build". Generally the user build conf...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

Externalize X'4032' Checkpoint Log record layout

Provide a DSECT and/or layout of the data within the X'4032' checkpoint log record " OTMA TPIPE/QAB/TIB/MTE/MCB". The main use we have in mind for this is we'd be able to see the ENQCT, DEQCT, QCT for all Tpipes at a given checkpoint. Similar to w...
6 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Future consideration

Ability to specify MSGCLASS for Subordinate Address Spaces

When running a Database Recover Facility batch job (FRXSDR00) to recover an IMS Database, subordinate address spaces are spawned. Would like a way to specify the MSGCLASS of those subordinate address spaces.
9 months ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Functionality already exists

add RMF PCIE panel for Streaming in CDP (Common data provider)

after enabling zHyperlink, it would be usefal that Common data Provider (CDP) could stream PCIE statistics , to use data in Splunk
almost 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Add support for multiline and >1024character line writes

Currently, ZOAU is limited in its ability to write to a z/OS dataset. Currently, the maximum character length for a line is 1024. Splitting a longer string into multiple lines requires multiple calls to datasets.write() since this function takes a...
about 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Planned for future release

Create a single SMF field that represents the primary wait reason.

There are over 500 fields in the current SMF 110 (1) record. We have started sending these to Splunk, but had to whittle the number of fields down to about 20 considering we process up to 2 billion SMF records per day. There are so many different ...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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