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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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1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time Should be in XE and 3270
almost 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search. In critical in case we have 500+ elements for DBB

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search in situations where the customer needs to handle 500+ elements for DBB.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Future consideration

More capitalization options in auto formatter

We would like to have some more specific options on capitalization/uppercase/lowercase/mixed-case functions for "user defined words" in the Cobol Editors autoformatter: A) An option only to rework user defined words in Procedure Divison matching t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Add "Associate Complete Program" to the RSE

In z/OS project view, "Associate Complete Program" appears when a user right clicks on a PL/I Include file or a COBOL copybook.But it is not available when a user right clicks on these types of files from the RSE view.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

IDz Software Analyzer should work with many Programs

In IDz you can select multiple Programs in the Software Analyzer Configurations. When you for example select "Analyze selected projects" for a Project with 902 Cobol Files you will get an error. Please see Ticket "IDz Software Analyzer could not p...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Enhance IMS to be able to do decimal compares on DL/I calls

Current IMS only performs binary compares when a DL/I call contains a qualified SSA. This is a problem for packed and zoned decimal values and comparisons with >, >=, < and <=. Because IMS only performs binary comparisons a DL/I call c...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Future consideration

To terminate a users sessions and return to main menu after 15 minutes

Under Session Manager, there was an option to terminate a users active sessions and return them to the main menu. This is a PCI requirement for a number of customers. However, since migrating to SuperSession the ability to do this has been lost. W...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Customer would like the e3270UI screen KM5WSX4D - to provide graphs similar to screen KM5BOTA2

Customer would like the e3270UI screen KM5WSX4D - to provide graphs similar to screen KM5BOTA2.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improving the way CICS uses the global enqueues for ENQModels

We tried to implement an ENQ global (using ENQModel) but find out the response time for all the transactions using it increases significantly. IBM support told us the code managing this resource has a delay of 100 milliseconds between calls to che...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

ADDI: Disabling logging on the client if no settings exist

When I start a new workspace and no settings for ADDI are set in the preferences, then the log is written full with trace information. In the workspace and in the product itself no tracing settings are set.Not only the performance suffers but also...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Future consideration

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