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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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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
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

New CICS Start Option to Recover and then shut down

Provide a new CICS start option that would start CICS, connect with all related resource managers (IMS, DB2, MQ, etc.), complete all recovery, and then shutdown without allowing work to start flowing into that CICS. The current CICS startup option...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

QA Checks in the z/OS Connect EE API3 designer

Problem Statement : One of the risks of the bottom-up approach is that CBL software engineers create API's which don't adhere to ethos of what a good API should look like and behave. Abstraction can be a 'remote' concept to some m/f developers !! ...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

CICS Explorer Auto Refresh

Enable CICS Explorer to have Auto Refresh like the CPSM WUI.
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Vertical display of Program Control Flow diagram

Hello IBM, I'd like to display the result of the Program Control Flow vertically from top to bottom because this is more usable for exports in other documents and it saves space. (long section names steal place in a horizontal display). Thx Michael
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Copy a binary file between different remote systems or local and remote system

The idea is to allow copying sequencial PDS's or PDS's members with binary data from one remote system to a different remote system and between the local and remote system in the IDz IDE
about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Integration with CDP in a configuration with a standby controller

We use a standby controller and we want to use the CDP whit it running but now is not supported. This is why we request to integrate CDP with standby controllers
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

new function for current timestamp

I would a cobol function to retrieve the current system timestamp with the higher possible precision like STCKE or Db2 SET CURRENT TIMESTAMP. Optionally a parameter could drive the required precision of the timestamp (same way as the current times...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 15 Future consideration

RFE to create TIMEOUT parameter in CICS for calls out to z/OS Connect

Provide a ‘TIMEOUT’ parameter within CICS for calls from CICS out to z/OS Connect. The CICS regions in our environment that call out to z/OS Connect are high volume, multi-application regions that are used to sub-second response times. Calls out t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update CEGN transaction to support Password Phrases

CICS has a sample "Good night" transaction called CEGN that is intended for juse if a region is configured to allow users to be timed out after a period of inactivity. However it only prompts for a password not pass phrase so is not in keeping wit...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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