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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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Improve the collection of IPIC and CICS traces

We can only enable IPIC and CICS traces by setting IPIC_DATA_TRACE=1 and CICSTRACE = 1 environment variables and restarting TX regions afterwards. This usage is not practical in case of an issue that we cannot reproduce as we don't know the cause ...
7 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

PLI record support for QSAM

Currently the QSAM support does apply only for Cobol, we'd like to see this feature also available on PLI.
over 1 year ago in Z Virtual Test Platform 0 Planned for future release

ibm_db to be shipped with supported driver

IBM should ship the the ibm_db driver with their Python for z/OS. Underway is a DBA modernization initiative where we are bringing in modern tooling and languages such as Python for z/OS and in particular the ibm_db library for communicating with ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Not under consideration

Customer is issuing INGIMS with a transaction as the command and getting DFS165 hh:mm:ss COMMAND VERB IS INVALID

INGIMS apparently passes IMS commands using this Multiple Console Support (MCS) which we had enabled by defining the IMS parameter CMDMCS=Y (the default was N). Basically INGIMS will simply prefix whatever has been specified with the IMSsubid and ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 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

Create POST Query via JOBNAME in REST API Offering for IBM zWS

The REST API for zWS needs a POST command query that is primarily driven by the JOBNAME as in PANEL ID EQQASELP. This query should present all the properties/attributes of the job.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enable IMS AIBTDLI INQY ENVIRON call to retrieve IMS Function Level

Please refer to IBM case TS002966101 and also note that if this information is entered into the PMR ID: field of the RFE submission URL, the error message "The PMR ID is not valid. The ID should have the format XXXXX,YYY,ZZZ using numbers for the ...
almost 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

To Dsiplay the "Correct Usage" of an Error when clicked on an Error after doing Softwat Analyzer in IDZ

Like in SonarQube, if you click on an error, it will display the non-compliance and compliance usage, based on this the developer will know how to correct/fix the error / issue in the code. So the expectation is the same in IDZ S/A as well.
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Improved ability to invoke trigger keys

We are in the process of migrating a customer from CA-TPX to Supersession.The customer is used to switching between sessions using command keys in CA-TPX in various different situations. Users switch sessions from input fields, which can contain d...
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide hooks for Pre-provisioning to integrate Quota restrictions

Provide hooks for Pre-provisioning so we can integrate with our license Quota restrictions mechanism.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration