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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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TCSACTN=FORCE terminates hung LU6.2 VTAM connections even if CNOS close processing has not completed

As it stands right now during a shutdown hang, TCSACTN=FORCE will not close down LU6.2 parallel connections until after CNOS close processing has completed. Once a region begins to shutdown and gets to the process of terminating of VTAM sessions, ...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Consistent date format for display of dates in tables and filter criteria

The display of dates should be consistent across the UKO UI. - The dates displayed in UKO when listing keys and key templates are shown in ISO format YYYY/MM/DD. - The filter criteria for dates for keys and key templates are display in US format M...
7 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Db2 pureXML Parser

DSN_XMLVALIDATE failed because of this pattern in the XML schema: <xs:pattern value="[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+](|[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+]|[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+ ]{1,2}[0-9a-zA-Z/\-\?:\(\)\.,'\+])"/>
almost 4 years ago in XML for z/OS 5 Future consideration

New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple lineFor example - ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE" This is perfectly valid statem...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

Provide a FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Search Concatenated Data Sets

Remote z/OS File Search enhancement: When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialogue, please allow for the ability to request that the search treat the datasets as a concatenation of datasets instead of searching...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Enhancing CTG Idletimeout paramater definition for Transactions or Group of Transactions

The Idletimeout parameter with dropworking specifies the period of time, in milliseconds, that a connection is allowed to remain idle. When the idle timeout has expired, the Client application is disconnected. Currently Idletimeout parameter can o...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Change IMS Catalog Definition Exit DFS3CDX0 to make it more user friendly

DFS3CDX0 is used to provide settings and attributes of the IMS Catalog to Batch application programs.It is an alternative to code “xxx” in the JCL of batch jobs for referencing to DFSDFxxx Member in IMS.PROCLIB. Currently all parameters from DFSDF...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Have the ability in Configuration Manager to build the work (WK) datasets ahead of time

Currently Configuration Manager only creates the new STC procs, VTAMLST members, DB2 bind JCL, etc. during the GENERATE step. In larger environments, often different people/groups need to perform different tasks, example the network person/group d...
8 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration