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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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allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
9 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Need Intrinsic Function equal to STCKCONV macro

Provide an Intrinsic Function that performs the same conversion as the STCKCONV Assembler macro to eliminate the necessity of writing and maintaining a separate Assembler subroutine to perform the STCKCONV action.
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Future consideration

Timeout values for CICS Web Support inconsistent

Allow CICS web support calls to specify a timeout value as part of the API call, so that the application can control how long to wait for each request.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Use of generic character in SET TRANSID for CBAC

We are planning the migration from CA DADS to CICS Batch Application Control and faced the need to convert CICS commands like “CEMT SET TRANSID(XX*),ENABLESTATUS(DISABLED)" allowed in DADS,too, as CBAC command using “SET TRANSID”, that is the only...
about 4 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Other 2 Not under consideration

JSON PARSE error handling improvements

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose messages and tokens to application code. It would be helpful if application logic can determine which PARSE messages to display or suppress. Also, message tokens can be useful in error handling in...
about 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Password encryption on dex.yaml

Noticed that in dex.yaml the LDAP bind password is plain text . We should never use plain text password which is GIS violation. Please provide fix to use encrypted password or any other method where we don't have to use plain text password in dex....
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Extend GDPS Metro Support for KVM Guest Systems

To build a KVM environment under Linux for IBM Z makes it necessary to implement new HA and DR features. In a grown z/OS environment, GDPS Metro solves many problems which have to be solved again for Linux just by another product. To make IBM Z wi...
about 4 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

Using specific CICS Channel Name

In the z/OS Connect OpenAPI3 Designer, "JSONCHANNEL" is always used as a CICS channel name and there is currently no way to change CICS channel name when we invoke CICS Channel program via z/OS Connect. It means if customer has CICS Channel progra...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

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