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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, ...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

OM JVM - Realtime monitor CPU and Memory per zOSCEE API and Service

A customer who is using zOSCEE would like to monitor the usage of CPU time and Memory per API and Service.For system operation point of view, this information is required for better management.Current OM JVM is able to provide "Response Time", but...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 2 Future consideration

Refresh application programs in a MPR with persistent JVM

IMS with MPP with persistent JVM. CANCEL_PGM=NO and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. The Language Environment enclave remains active during all the MPR lifetime in order to keep t...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Add field to TLOGIQ and TLOGUI with the APAR level of the TADz/IZSAM scan agent used to create scan file

Every month we receive many thousands of IZSAM scan files from client systems around the world. Often we receive queries as to why their QMF has not been correctly identified, or other issues that have already been resolved by the developers. In m...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 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...
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Retry timer for restarting High Speed Connector Endpoints should be configurable.

As we have been told, when an Endpoint needs to be restarted, the code defaults to 60 seconds between tries. In the TPF world, that is an eternity.
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Store outputs of the software analyzer in individual files

At the moment the output of all runs is stored in a single file. In the future, we would like the run of every programm anaylized stored in an individual file (XML, JUnit, ...).
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

IDZ should officially support the Eclipse Installer / Oomph.

Firstly, the Eclipse Installer / Oomph provides the option of downloading the java JDK option with JustJ. We would suggest IDz offers the same option with its own bundled JDK. Secondly, we would like a EPP package available in this option. With th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

The aqua download site should provide an EPP package to download

Like other IDE (e.g. Eclipse) IDz should also provide an EPP package to download on their aqua download side,. This would simplify the use of the Eclipse-Installer should customers decide to use one. As a first step it would suffice to provide the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

IPCONN & Transaction AutoInstall

We have a TOR/AOR configuration. In the AOR we have these parameters in order to not define the mirror transactions that use the application: DSRTPGM=ISSDYP00,DTRPGM=ISSDYP00,DTRTRAN=@MIR If we use an MRO connection and execute this command in the...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration