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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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zSecure Audit - CIS Benchmark - CIS-OS-1.2.12 Expired Certificate - show label

While the current control CIS-OS-1.2.12 checks for expired certificates it only lists the 'real' resource with the serial number. However, like IP addresses they do not mean a lot for an end user. Hence, I would suggest that not only the serial nu...
8 days ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 0 Submitted

new function to calculate the number of days between two dates

daysDiff( x, y, p ) which would return the number of days between 2 dates and correspondingly secondsDiff( x, y, p ) which would return the number of seconds before 2 times (or dates)
15 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

use the weekday builtin function with two parameters(date x, format p)

This would be an easier way to use the function weekday: weekday( x, p ) returns weekday( days( x, p ) )
15 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Show end wait time for synchronous callouts in the /DISPLAY ACTIVE command output

IMS shows an end wait time for synchronous program switches in the /DISPLAY ACTIVE command output. This is very helpful in some kinds of error situations. Although for synchronous callouts the same DL/I call is being used, the /DISPLAY ACTIVE comm...
15 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

Display or messages to monitoring the available private storage

We think it would be very useful to have messages or displays to monitor the available private storage (below the line, above the line and above the bar). In other products have message or displays to monitor the private storage: - In MQ we have m...
15 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

Provide Size/Number of Bytes of Encrypted vs NonEncrypted Data

I am working with a Federal Client in the US assisting in their encryption project. Early on we were looking for a mechanism to track progress of encryption. They wanted to see both the number of files encrypted vs files yet to encrypt, but also, ...
22 days ago in zSecurity / zSecure Audit 0 Submitted

Allow parallel installation of Python FMIDs

Currently, every new Python version ist delivered with ++DELETEs for the older Pyhton FMID. A complete migration of everything is sometimes very difficult, as some packages from IBM Pythin AI Toolkit or pypi may don't work together with the new ve...
about 2 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 0 Under review

Support for PL/I

Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
5 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add support for OTMA transaction expiration for IFP regions

IMS transaction can be defined to expire OTMA messages to prevent the use of resources for messages that are waiting too long to be processed. For transactions that run in MPP regions, there are three types of checks that IMS does to see if the tr...
3 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 0 Under review

Builtin function for CMPSC & zEDC (data compression)

In CICS, we're currently heavily relying on compression of data before we write the data to VSAM datasets. This is currently done by a no longer supported ISV software. We think about how to migrate it to a better solution that provides better way...
about 2 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release