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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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INGGROUP should have a parm to prevent entire group outages

The inggroup now accepts RECYCLE to perform a psuedo rolling recycle of the group. You can specify CHUNK to indicate how many members of that group should be processed in parallel. The one thing it does not do is ensure that the previous resource ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Cobol Editor: Behavior of Manage Sequence Numbers

When you activate function "Manage Sequence Numbers" you can insert characters in position 1 to 72 without shifting the sequence number (position 73 to 80) to the right.But when there is a character in position 72 and you continue to type you will...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 7 Future consideration

SA AMs to Support Agents in Multiple Timezones

Enhance SAz/OS to allow the agents running under an AM to run in different local timezones. Currently, if an AM does a failover/takeover to an SAM running in a different timezone, SVPs and other time-related elements could be adversely affected. W...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

Possibility to show source program of ALIAS member

In our existing AD version (eg; 6.0.1.x) when cobol program has static assembler call, then search pattern is made towards the actual name of 'assembler program'. Suppose assembler program is not found, then it is considered as 'missing program'. ...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

ADDI - Program Global Search without Project Listing

In ADDI plugin, program search works fine only within particular project list. But there is no feature for global search in all project repositories.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Enhance zfile tar to include a compression option

zfile tar should include compression to reduce the output for easier archiving and backup. This should take advantage of IBM's hardware compression.
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

TPFUG - Allow an option for the z/TPF user to change the default load balance behavior for SSL Shared Sessions.

In the current environment the default load balance behavior for SSL shared sessions is to assign an SSL daemon at the time the application CTX (context) is created. All sessions for this application will be assigned to this daemon. This behavior ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Looking for Multi-Factor Authentication support for SAIOM

I have accounts I support that are looking for SAIOM to support MFA, as some of the regulations/restrictions they are required to adhere to require MFA.
about 2 years ago in Tivoli System Automation for Integrated Operations Management (SA IOM) 0 Future consideration

Docu: username / password restrictions CICS Websupport

„CICS Web Support“ expects a special CCSID for username / password whenusing „EXEC CICS WEB CONVERSE“. We came accross it, when testing with BASIC AUTH and a username including an@-character (e.g. user@xxx.de). When reading mulitple documentations...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Future consideration

Origin Data to be passed for DTP and ASYNC flows

For transaction tracking purposes it is important that a transactions has some information about the parent transaction. The ADCB doesn't have information for DTP transactions and some of the ASYNC flows (e..g START with TERMID). The ORIGIN DATA i...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

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