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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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Copy and compare test entries in Test Case Editor of zUnit

In the Test Case Editor of zUnit, please provide the function to copy and compare whole values of one test entry with a single click.When performing PoC with V14.1.4, we copied by selecting the cell range.However, when the number of data items is ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

CICS System Policy for Extra Partition TDQ WRITE output, to detect large output TDQ; there is one at Task Level

We have several output TDQ's that get filled with Millions of TDQ Writes; fills up JES Spool; get paged to Close/Open TDQ to SPOOL off. We have PLT process to do this at Midnight; but now they are filling at arbitrary times; we get paged with aler...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

IPCS to format the active HANDLE's for a task

Right now IPCS only shows the HTB control blocks. It would be nice if IPCS could format the control blocks into a table showing which handles are active
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Removing application group entry in CP

When adding a Application Group to CP and you regret (for some reason) and want to cancel your way back, an entry is left in CP preventing to add the Application Group again using same Input Arrival values. Cancel during add, should mean cancel (a...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance CTC Active Tasks display

When monitoring active tasks under CTC the display shows total Blocks/Bytes sent and based on elapsed time Blocks/Bytes Per Second. Watching a typical transfer its common to observe the total columns to cycle through periods of increment and pause...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IBM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools - Health Center under AQUA 3.3

We provide a consolidated eclipse environment for our mainframe Tools such as MQ, zOS, CICS explorer, Debug tools, Data Studio and with AUQA 3.3 , tool "BM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools - Health Center" is not available.
almost 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Remote Pre-processor support for local files

Due to Git usage source code is no longer stored and developed in z/OS rather on the workstation. Presently there is not an IBM solution to invoke and use the Remote pre-processor in IDz on a local file.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Project lock status

IBM Application Discovery Batch Server service locks the project during import operation in case of any project changes identified by AD batch server. Because of project lock, when we launch UMM, Build and Make operation via automated script, AD t...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Enhance INGEXEC to allow local substitution of System Variables

Ingexec will allow you route commands to another system and will allow the customer to specify # for the AOCQRY variables that should be substituted on the system of execution and for the resource in which the ingexec is using. Currently I specify...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

RMF CPC Report Retrieval Reliabilty Improvements

To obtain CPC-level metrics for all LPARs running on a CPC the OMEGAMON PlexView agent KM5PDAG issues a system level query that drives a system level agent (KM5LDAG) on an RTEMS selected from an internally built list of all M5 RTEMSs running on th...
almost 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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