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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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Suport for IBM CCSID 1379 (Traditional and Simplified Chinese Characters)

There is constant request over a couple of years for this CCSID to be supported for our businesses in Hong Kong. Appreciate if you can consider adding this support as soon as possible.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

WAS Liberty for z/OS tracking support for IBM Observability by Instana Application Performance Monitoring on z/OS

Our customer wants to track the transaction which connects between WAS Liberty on z/OS and Db2 for z/OS via JDBC Type 2.Competitor is Dynatrace which supports WAS Liberty on z/OS but out customer wants to use IBM Instana if this support will be ad...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Delivered

configurability of RAFC group names

The RACF group names (i.a. DBBADMNS, DBBUSERS, DBBGUEST) used in DBB should be configurable so they can be changed to adhere to company name conventions. Otherwise it can be difficult to roll out DBB Version 2.
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API

z/OS Connect API - allow to set HTTP response status code in the API When a client submits an API request to z/OS Connect, it receives a response (with JSON payload), and an HTTP status code. However, the status code does not reflect any non-fatal...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Delivered

add a configurable timer and max. number of request to the audit interceptor to force writing SMF123V2 record

add a configurable timer and a configurable max. number of requests to the audit interceptor, that will flush the queue and write the SMF123V2 record as configured by the customer
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

fieldformat not changed - case sensitive

We imported a pl/1 Structur. After import alle the fields in lower case changed to uppercase, this is not nice, because the developper has to change the format every time he changes the service. It would be good if the fields keep the format defin...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 6 Delivered

JSON GENERATE : Conditional SUPPRESS

JSON object, unlike copy cobol, are flexible : a JSON object can have non-mandatory name/value pairs missing. Currently with JSON GENERATE : - for a string, when the value is all space, a single space is kept. - for a number, when the value is 0, ...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Delivered

As a database administrator, I want to be able to tell from the console message what application program caused a dump within the TPFDF middleware, so that I don’t need to post process the dump to get this information.

TPFDF itself checks for errors and can detect many error conditions. In these cases, TPFDF and correctly tags the dump message with the calling application program in a centralized error handling routine. However, if the dump happens in the TPFDF ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Delivered

Userid information should be displayed in ZCEE Early Failure 401 Authorization requests logged by Omegamon/JVM

The ability to monitor early authorization failures HTTP 401 is now available in z/OS Connect and Omegamon/JVM but the userid and mapped userid is not displayed for these failure requests. The userids are retrieved by using getUserPrincipal() whic...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

JZOS Maven jars should throw exception for disabled functionality

IBM has made JZOS jars available on Maven Central for development and compilation. The functionality has been disabled in the Maven Central jars. Some or all disabled functions currently return invalid values e.g. null. If you inadvertently use th...
5 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 4 Delivered

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