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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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CICS Named Counter API Commands need security

CICS has a series of API commands to utilise Named Counters: DEFINE (D)COUNTER DELETE (D)COUNTER GET (D)COUNTER QUERY (D)COUNTER REWIND (D)COUNTER UPDATE (D)COUNTER Looking in the documentation: Access to named counter pools - IBM Documentation in...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

SMF types needed on TDS DB2 Tables

We need this smf types on TDS DB2 Tables. Could you please prepare fixtest ? SMF30PFR (CHANGED SERVICE CLASS of JOBS) Job service class association was modified by a system operator during job execution. SMF30SQT (JOBS WAITING INITIATOR) Time the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

ADDI - Secondary RACF ID

Currently the product does not support DB2 secondary authorization IDs
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

z/OS Connect EE - Support for Multiple Versions

z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit (3.0.60 - current version) along with z/OS Connect EE 3.0.24, doesn't support Multiple version Naming for IMS or CICS APIs created. Though there are different fields available for 'Name' and 'version', while generating ...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

USER DASD consists of multiple SMS Storage Groups but when you drill down, it's showing volumes of those SMS Storage Groups... Would like to show SMS Storage groups before going to the individual volumes.

When you define USER DASD groups (e.g. DATABASES), you can add that USER group by defining specific (or multiple SMS Storage Groups) that would make up that USER DASD group. Drilling down into the USER DASD group, it then shows the individual volu...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Search function for program literals to add to Monitor

Hello IBM, we like to have a functionality that was found in Xpediter: When you want to add a variable/literal to the Monitors view "Monitor Expression" and you're not 100% sure how it's call, you should have the option to search for the name of t...
over 2 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

New feature to stop/cancel ongoing transfers without restarting CUZCLOUD

In current version of CTC we do not have feature to stop/cancel the ongoing Active task. We would be happy if you can implement the suggested feature.
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2 Future consideration

ZSDEA modifications to support FENCED OFF file pool support

ZSDEA Modifications - Allow file pool "FENCING OFF" or the ability to de-activate a range of ordinals without requiring RAMFIL DE-ACTIVATION updates to the FACE TABLE. IBM's RAMFIL parameter is used to indicate if a pool segment is going to be dea...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Promotion of Remote Syntax Check

We need a visibility enhancement for the Remote syntax check function in order for the developpers to see it fastly and use it more than what they are currently do.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 5 Future consideration

Data Classification Scanning Tool/Application

Please develop a tool/application that does the following: -Scans datasets across the entire environment--IMS, DB2, * etc-Scans datasets for configurable patterns--Example: Scans for xxx-xx-xxxx-Aggregates names of datasets found with patterns for...
about 6 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

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