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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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Canzlog should stick to current find standards

CANZLOG find has introduced a separate means of doing a RepeatFind Called REVFIND. This is different then all other means of repeat find via browse. Canzlog should utilize existing standards for repeat find.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Sessions survive abnormal end of a SuperSession region in a Generic Resource

We have two regions of Supersession running in parallel connected via Generic Resource.In case one region comes down, we would like that the users are able to log on to the other region and are able to logon to their saved sessions again.Currently...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support of jakarta package and JDK 17+ for IMS TM RESOURCE ADAPTER

Good morning. We are actually using IMS TM Resource Adapter, but despite the continous evolution of the java standard we are still force to stay on old JAVAEE 8 standard, due to the missing of support from IMS TM Resource Adapter to JAKARTA EE pac...
4 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Planned for future release

Make z/OS Connect policy support more flexible

z/OS Connect policy support currently is very limited. All rules are based on conditions on HTTP headers. The configuration parameter values which overwrite the original ones in the service archive can only be fix values or values containing the v...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 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

WEB RECEIVE shall not limit the http response headers to 4k

we do have situations where the server do reply http headers area bigger than 4k and in these case we get a 16 INVREQ Resp2=157 from cics instead of running successfully we do have a jwt solution where the signed jwt is 7k and if the server sent t...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Proposal for enhanced z/TPF DNS Client behavior and alerting

The recent exchange between the IBM z/TPF Lab and DXC in the Support Case TS016560816 has suggested that IBM would be open to considering enhancements to the behavior and/or alerting for the DNS client processing associated with gethostbyname and ...
4 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Option to generate REST Open API Service JSON file without REST RPC lines

We want to create a OPEN API REST Service project without REST RPC. At this moment when a JSON file is created there are also REST RPC lines in it.As a result of that Postman uses this RST RPC Endpoint.
8 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

shortcut menu manager

i implemented actions in the menu manager and i need run options to include shortcut for exemple CTR+SHIFT+2 for the action
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Support for more advanced JCL parsing when recording

When recording a testcase for zUnit the JCL isn't parsed correctly when the original JCL contains a SYSTIN DD with a dataset leaving the user to do some (not always obvious) manual editing of the JCL before being able to do a record. To improve th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration