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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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Provide real time indexing for z/OS sequential datasets

I'm not sure which workspace is appropriate - please help find a home for this? We generate terrabytes of log and SMF data every day, but much of it is hard to retrieve because of the amount of data. Could we have a splunk like model of indexing o...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement Request for SETTIMER Command

Actor: Systems Programmer Our team uses System Automation for z/OS for various things. One of which is utilizing Policy timers to perform some unit of work at a time-based interval. Currently operating in Netview to interact with policy timers (no...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Automation to import workspace settings between versions of IDz

Thru this RFE, request IBM team to consider providing an option that can help to migrate settings from past work space to the new work space. In the current world, we recommend develops to either 1) make a copy of their existing work space and use...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Update ZRTDM to display the default Attributes for an undefined record ID

Update the ZRTDM functional entry to display the default parameters supplied by the z/TPF system when a program requests a pool with an undefined record ID in the RIAT Table.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Support for mixed type JSON arrays

While using the webservice assistant DFHJS2LS, we are receiving errors when processing json schemas that have arrays using the items tag as an array e.g. “items”: […..] . This json schema is a valid schema and used to describe a Tuple; a type of a...
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

When i change Super session Global Trigger to use '/' in KLSGOTO, we have problems editing JCL. See case TS003047864

We are in the process of migrating CA-TPX software to CL/SuperSession. In this process, at the client's request we are trying to maintain similarity with what we had in CA-TPX.Customer wants to use / to navigate between applications so we set the ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Removal of Interactive Service for PCONMM Service

Windows reports on interactive services as an error in Windows system logs (see attached screenshot). https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/we-noticed-that-the-interactive-services-detection/fad0c42f-9d12-4cf6-a54a-2f9cf8731e4f. We...
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

True length of DSECT

There should be a method (perhaps a new parameter) that would cause the "length" attribute of a DSECT to return the actual size of the dummy section, rather than simply returning a value of 1.
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

TWS IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) should also show ZIIP usage in Joblog statistics

We are using TWSz to schedule production and test jobs. TWSz includes a IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) which also writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics is CPU usage. For users to see the real usage of CPU resources the user also needs to know...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration