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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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Menu manager migration

IDz should support a smooth migration of menu manager to higher IDz version.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

COMMIT frequency in PURGE

Include an COMMIT frequency parameter in PURGE command. We have large tablespaces and an huge retetion (6 months to 2 years depending of the table). When the PURGE execute the job takes more or less 5 hours, causing the resources get locked and ti...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Monitor the jobs for sending an email when an alert condition occurs

Alert notifications can be critical for any business. Therefore, a method for monitoring email notification jobs is necessary. As providing a multi-tenant system with TWS becomes increasingly important due to the decentralization of work to variou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

FM to remember the latest selection criteria previously enter as and when FM is executed

Cause : On Production, to create/save template/copybook is not allow. Hence, User needs to use dynamic template and this is not practical as the selection criteria has to be input every single times Screenshot per the attached - When we leave this...
almost 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Meaningful complete initialization message fro all the OMEGAMON products

It is not obvious enough to determine the complete and successful initialization of the OMEGAMON products (for z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ,.. ). We can't find an unique message that indicates that all the components of an Omegamon started task are re...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Wand user in case no CLOSE statements in CBL program

ZUnit test failure due to dataset compare issue with missing CLOSE statement. So to summarize the issue, test case that creates non text datasets (aka with packed decimal fields) fail as the ZUnit compare can’t seem to recognize the datasets are t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Add a "conditional record hold" function that allows the coder to specify the maximum number of waiters for this record.

In an effort to avoid record hold bottlenecks, rather than blindly issue a FIWHC (which can result in a lengthy wait queue), would it be a better idea to invent a conditional FIWHC equivalent that would allow the programmer to specify the maximum ...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

IBM Z Workload Scheduler : Save JCL after execution to rerun at a later time

Archiving JS Files to offer the possibility to add an application at the current plan using the JCL used for the same application at an earlier date and with an IATIME that may be different. This function is actually done by a user developpment we...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Add Date Time offset fields to SMF 110 record header

With the growing customer need to load SMF data into analytical tools, the requirement to align and associate the various records from multiple time zones using date and time is becoming more critical. The lack of date time offset values in the so...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Open Declaration (F3) für Db2 objects

After selecting a Db2-object and choosing "Open Declaration" from the context menu or hitting F3, the edit location should move to the declaration of the Db2-object in the Cobol-source. (Analogous to F3 when positioned on a variable)
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Future consideration