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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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TLS 1.3 support for TN3270 SSL clients

As per security counsel and standard its recommended to have TLS 1.3 protocol support for the TN3270 TLS console sessions.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 7 Planned for future release

Allow logical operation on filters in CPSM WUI and Explorer

A long time ago, when we only had the CPSM TSO Interface, we were able to use the filters in a smarter way by building them on some variables using each variable more than one, in other words, we could make conditional sentences. For example, we c...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Allow API/SAR Deployment to specified Folder Location

Related to RFE 112082, We envision the Eclipse API toolkit having a pop-up providing an option to specify a location when doing a deploy. It is important that our application developers for each of our lines of business to choose their separate LO...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Ability to disable mouse scroll wheel

We have users that are accidentally hitting the mouse wheel and it deleted data have entered into the current screen. They do not use the wheel function and would prefer to disable it.
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

z/OS Connect should provide appropriate HTTP error codes on errors within z/OS Connect or backend systems

Since a short time it is now possible to define HTTP return codes in z/OS Connect depending on codes the application sends back its response message, but in error Scenarios z/OS Connect still doesn't provide an appropriate HTTP error code. Instead...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 7 Not under consideration

Allow ISPF SPOC to use max screen width instead of 80 char

Allow ISPF SPOC to utilize the entire width of a user's screen instead of being limited to 80 characters. Current 3270 emulators can even go as high as 160 chars width. Based on some testing that we did, it seems to be a simple enough change (from...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Increase the size of the Escalation Database to allow for more events to be stored.

The Escalation database has a maximum limit of records it can hold. (2200 events maximum). One the limit is reached, there is a warning messaged logged indicating the maximum number of events was exceeded. This message is written at program startu...
3 months ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Submitted

document recomandation on linux lpar spec to host 10s, 50s, 100s of ZVDT instances

I'm looking for recomandations for how many LPARs, how much memory, how many IFLs, what linux kernel parameters needs to be adjusted to run dozen ZVDT instances 50+ ZVDT instances 100-500 ZVDT instances
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / On-demand Dev and Test environment for z/OS 0

Provide License Strategy during installation for Value Unit Licensing (Host Based Licensing)

During installation of IDz the product defaults to using the Trial License and then allows for the setting of various license types. There is currently no setting for Value Unit Licensing (host based licensing) and if the trial license in effect f...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 0 Submitted

Make name of DLL generated for COBOL-Java ILC variable

Fixed prefix LIB might not fit to naming conventions
3 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

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