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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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Change Request for DFSBRLSC Macro

We would like to request that the DFSBRLSC macro add a new option ACTIVE/STAGING to the DFSBRLSC macro.The IMS Reorg utility needs to issue a DBRC RECON command to the staging data set using the DFSBRLSC macro.Therefore, we would like you to add a...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Future consideration

controlling IPLcomplete-check after setting new Runmode

In case of maintenance we are using runmodes with reduced number of resources which are needed to maintain the systems.In this phase IPL will not complete, cause all our online-systems are down, which are defined for IPL-complete checking.Not all ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Remove the manual step to create a working directory for Remote Host Connector

For IDz v15.0.5 or v16.0.0, user need to manually create a local folder as the "working directory" before they can use Remote Host Connector. This is a very bad user experience as users no need to do so before when it still have HCE. Users will no...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Explore AD project: Display of resource types that have an artifact

It would be better if the folders were named when the AD projects were created and only these could be created. Subsequent creation and deletion should be possible for existing AD projects. With this control, on the one hand, the user can navigate...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Improve how TSA sees attended autotasks in Netview

For the commands listed below, TSA should treat autotasks started with *MASTER* and *INTERN* the same way it does with the ones started with *ANY* (attended autotask) Meaning that the default value for the VERIFY parameter should be WTOR. INGMOVEI...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Recovering from abend AICA under OTE TCB

An application can establish an abend handler by EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND, which gets control if any abend occurs, e.g. with abend code AICA. If running under OTE, an abend AICA cannot be intercepted by a user abend handler, i.e. the transaction ter...
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

PIF support for StepLevel Awarness

StepLevel Awareness (STEPINFO(YES)) brings benefits for operation problem solving via dialog - but in huge environments (millions of OPs) and a big disaster this way over dialog is not useful. So StepLevel Awareness should be provide a PIF interfa...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Make clear warning message for "Source -> Validate JCL" feature when working with tape datasets

'Source -> Validate JCL' feature does not support tape datasets, but instead when using this feature it returns "Dataset not found" for the tape dataset. This message brings confusion among users. If that feature does not work for tape datasets...
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer 4 Future consideration

Ability to keep BKR_Catalog & BKR_Job_Tape retention values in sync

In a backup job definition that will write the output to tape, we need to specify below 2 retention options: Config BKR_Catalog_Retention = nnnn Config BKR_Job_Tape_Retention = nnnn Is there was a way to ensure they match may be by defining it wit...
about 2 years ago in Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM 1 Future consideration

API call for preprocessor integration (Create a new AD-Project)

The automation of existing AD projects (current state) 1. Copy the artifacts in the subfolder of the AD projects2. Generation of the make-bat files3. Parallel execution of the make-bat files The preprocessor integration has to be done manually for...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration