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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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Add instream support for procedures called from JCL, and STEPLIB support

Competitor's testing products utilize process to make changes to execution JCL that include making the impacted PROC instream. This allows for PGM= substitution to their monitoring program, modifying PARM statement if required, modifying existing ...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

Enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory

In large environments with many nodes it is possible for ITM to overrun the 31-bit memory allocation causing abends in Remote TEMS started tasks on z/OS. Please enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory as a means to avoid this memory overrun in situations...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Make Search Results Persistent

Enhancement to the IDz Remote z/OS Search View to make search results available between IDz sessions. Please add the ability to save the actual Remote z/OS File search results so the results are available between IDz sessions. There is already an ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Requirement on IMS for JOINs across non-hierarchical related tables

In our IMS ODBM PoC development, we need the ability to JOIN IMS sibling segments.    We realize that this incurs performance overhead, but we still need to have this SQL JOIN option with child-to-child segments as well as DBD-to-DBD seg...
about 11 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Add PROCs to the Job Call Flow

It would be nice if the PROCs that are called by Jobs were reflected in the Job Call Flow
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

IDz (16.x) : Db2 for z/OS, DDL generation for the dependent UDF objects

Staring IDz 15.0.6 the DDL generation for the complex dependent UDF objects has been deprecated, this particular feature was working correctly until 15.0.5. In our site some appl. developers and DBA(occasionally) uses these features for their regu...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

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

zOS Connect tracking token in x'56FA' records

We are seeing a large increase in traffic to our backend IMS systems using z/OS Connect and API. We offload z/OS Connect SMF records to splunk along with IMS x'56FA' records. z/OS Connect provides a tracking token which currently IMS stores in x'0...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Altering datasets with IBM ZOAU

Today, Python Z Open Automation Utilities provide a lot of functionality for dataset tasks like create, delete, copy, rename and so on.Actually one important use case is to alter a dataset’s management class. On z/OS this can easily be done by i.e...
almost 3 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

Enhanced JCCQ monitoring

IBM zWS issues message EQQZ106W for JCCQ, for example EQQZ106W 012 % OF QUEUE JCCQ IN USE If the trend is increasing, zWS will issue more EQQZ106W messages, but if it's decreasing or dropped below the threshold, we never know. There needs to be a ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration