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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 support for Aqua 3.3.

Currently, users who have migrated to IDz 16.0.3 are missing a critical piece of previously existing productivty tooling - the IMS Explorer integration. It would be beneficial to have the tooling updated to support the latest version before versio...
9 months ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Planned for future release

Enhance the setting UI of Remote Connection Emulator (RCE)

Now there are 2 place that can configure the connection parameters (host / port, etc) in the RCE - the "Host properties" tab at the bottom - the "Session properties" button on the upper right corner Users are always getting confused for how / wher...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

Clean up type (CLN_Ty) in Error Handler Layout (1) doesn’t provide enough details or (2) wasting spaces on Error hander layout

Hello, Clean up type (CLN_Ty) can be set on he TWS error handler layout – see PIC1. It can have 4 values: A (Automatic), I (immediate), M (Manual), N (None) – see PIC2. This CLN_Ty uses 6 characters from the Layout. I would like to suggest two/thr...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

CL/Supersession highlight active sessions main menu KLSVSEL1

Hello, It would really productive for our users to show a color difference between session statuses (Active/current and not active) in the main menu KLSVSEL1. There is not a parameter to configure that and we don't have enough skills with SSPL to ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

In OAS3, we still need a method to develop services using program communication areas to generate services from existing processes

The yaml OAS3 input document is not something most mainframe developers would have knowledge of how to develop correctly. However, they know how existing process and programs are working. Since a significant use of z/OS Connect is to expose access...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future 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

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Umbrella data as an additional column in CICS Task History Summary

Kyndryl Support Sagent Lending client and they need these features to support their LoanServ application / clients
6 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

LCP SGC support in MGM3SITE in RECOVERY region

When we are in failover state where production runs from recovery region, we can't take any LCP captures. We would like the ability to use GDPS/LCP to take a SGC capture in MGM 3-SITE topology when the production is failed over in the Recovery reg...
about 2 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

Remove empty fields from API responses

In the OpenAPI3 z/OS Connect Designer, there is currently no way to remove empty fields (i.e. "abcd" : "") from the API response. The OpenAPI2 API toolkit allowed us to easily do this. It would be beneficial performance wise to remove such fields ...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

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