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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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Request that product provide a list of datasets excluded from restore

AB&R does not provide a listing of data sets excluded from the restore.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Requesting reporting of total DASD utilization

AB&R does not supply us with total DASD utilization.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide some 64-bit compiler intrinsics when compiling 32-bit on a 64- bit architecture

The xlC compiler supplies (many) intrinsics that be used in lieu of assembly. Some of these intrinsic work on 32-bit words, and some on 64- bit double-words. (There are many others, but our interest here is 32- bit and 64-bit). __lwarx() load-word...
over 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 8 Not under consideration

Debug Functionality

Can't bring up symbolic source to set a breakpoint without executing the transaction.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Future consideration

RDz Editor and Templates and Snipppets

We think it could be an advantage to:<br />- enhance the editors handling of insertions by allowing the user to specify positions. E.g. /* ${subroutineName}${70}*/, where {70} pinpoint location of next character insertion.?<br />- the ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Requesting feature to report on resource utilization by job name.

AB&R does not report on resource utilization by job name. Our current product, DR Manager includes such a feature and it helps us to manage our DR resources effectively.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Debug Tool functionality

I can't overtype instructions in the Debug Source window to change the path of execution or to change a length or any other value.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Debug Tool functionality enhancements

Can't overtype the character portion of a storage display. (the part to the right that is in a readable format).    This makes changing anything extremely cumbersome and time consuming to constantly have to memorize the EBCDIC values to ...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide ability to provide subsystem ID for any application and roll remaining IMS/DB2 special ISPF PDB panels into base

In the SA ISPF PDB dialog:Currently, there are only a few (IMS and DB2) applications that provide a field to specify an MVS subsystem ID.    This along with a few remaining definitions require some unique coding a panels.Panel AOFGDYNA f...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Omegamon XE for z/OS not showing CF structure CPU % Utilization on TEPs

We recently had an issue where one of our CF structures ( VCFB) in BCC  <br />reached 100% CPU (Processor Utilization).    It appears that our MQ       <br />structure 'VQDAJ00' fi...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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