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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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Multi Factor Authentication compatibility with Infoprint Central

This request is to have Infoprint Central compatible with Multi Factor Authentication. Currently, we cannot sign into Infoprint Central using multi factor authentication. According to the doc, the apache server needs 64 bit enabled and configured,...
almost 6 years ago in Printsw / Infoprint Server and Transforms 4 Future consideration

Include Summary Data in CICS requested dumps when more than one address space

The CICS documentation states that the CICS Dump exit will always produce a dump summary - see: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=dfhpd720-dump-summary-error-index but formatting a recent series of LG0772 dumps from a logger issue at 5...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

INGDB2 TERM add a possibility to define a User value for the LIMIT keyword

With DB2 9.1 message DSNV514I is new. DSNV514I DISPLAY THREAD OUTPUT CONTINUED (CMDID=command_id) explaination: A -DISPLAY THREAD command output directed to an MVS console is continued. This output is linked to the group of -DISPLAY THREAD message...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

A List Relationships panel to list resources which have a relationship defined to the selected resource.

When modifying a resource, it is sometimes necessary to identify resources which have a relationship to the resource. There is currently no easy way to determine this information. It would be useful if there was a List Resources display (in the RE...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

In IMS Recovery Expert, provide estimate of time to recover

Typically when customers are faced with a situation where they may need to take an application offline and perform database recovery, they would like to have an estimate of the time it will take to recover in order to make a decision on if and whe...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

Enhancement for reporting functions so that Job_History reports capture all instances of a job and not just status during the time that the old current plan is archived

The Job_History report that is part of the DWC predefined management reports should be updated so that it captures all instances of a job's history. The way this report works currently is that it only captures the status of the job during the time...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

SPUFI-like DDL interface

As discussed during IMS managed ACB meeting, we would prefer to have SPUFI-like DDL interface instead of java based SQL Batch utility.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

TPFUG: Enhance z/DFDL to process complex schemas more quickly and efficiently using choice keys

Reference IBM Case: TS010552059 zDFDL CTL 10 Z/TPF Lab's Bradd Kadlecik's analysis of the CTL-010 revealed that the problem was not with the size of the source event message being zDFDL parsed, but the time needed to parse a complex zDFDL schema t...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZRTMC Results Monitor

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Product needs to display summary of 4HRA lpars

Customer has an agreement for MSU's for all dev/test lpars. Product needs to show a summary of the total monthly MSU's, so this can be tracked.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

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