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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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Enable AMODE(64) support in COBOL

Current CICS TS releases do not support AMODE(64) COBOL. The EXEC CICS GETMAIN64 command is for use only in non-LE AMODE(64) Assembler application programs. We would like to have that support in COBOL as well, which would benefit us to leverage th...
9 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Under review

Portuguese language support

We have an opportunity at Banco Bradesco, which requires that watsonx Assistant for Z be able to interact with users in Portuguese. The expected information for support in Portuguese will probably be in 1H25. Would it be possible to bring this lau...
6 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

Enable tracing per API on zOS Connect OAS 3

Given that when enabling tracing (either binary or non binary), there's an impact on server performance, that affects all APIs deployed on that server, we'd like to have an option to enable tracing per api, so that when analyzing we'll only be imp...
6 months ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Add global option support for STA, STO and PST TRAN commands.

Enabling PLEXPARM for IMS transactions allows setting a global status for IMS AREAS, DBS and TRANS. However for transactions the only way to set this is via the update transaction command. IMS RACF OPERCMDS settings cannot be configured for to all...
7 months ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

for zOS Connect similar to ZCEE-I-160 we need the PATCH option for OAS2. We don't have the ability to run API 3.0 and our users are trying to access vendors that use PATCH.

So there are 3 HTTP methods that are not supported PATCH, TRACE, CONNECT. While TRACE and CONNECT are not that common in APIs, the PATCH HTTP method is more and more used. If only a set of values need to be updated, PATCH would be a more efficient...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review
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TWS High Availability

We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in OMEGAMON for JVM

OMEGAMON for JVM (and record SMF 123) doesn't provide CPU usage information for API Provider and API Requester in z/OS Connect Server OAS3 native. This is a requirement for the client to get this information to be able to monitor and analyze perfo...
10 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for JVM 0 Future consideration

Include *.streams.json and *.protocols.json to FMID HHBO510

Would be possible to include *.streams.json and *.protocols.json to the FMID HHBO510 ZFS file? With version 2.1.0, they were included in the ZFS file and the users using ADCD stack (IBM Z Development & Test Environment) were able to use all fu...
10 days ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Submitted

PL/I support for Kafka SDK

Many customers use PL/I on Z. It would be good to have Kafka SDK support available to this language in addition to already available COBOL & C languages
29 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Apache Kafka 0

Support GitHub Copilot Eclipse plugin in IDZ

GitHub Copliot for Eclipse plugin required a minimum Eclipse 4.33 version, but in the latest IDZ v17 it is still running on Eclipse 4.31. https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/github-copilot It would be very useful for IDZ to support GitHub Copi...
20 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

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