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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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Inbound CICS transaction tracking for SNA or IP Sockets connection

Many big bank customers in Asia Pacific have applications like core banking and credit card applications still using SNA or IP Sockets as the inbound connection to CICS transactions, they have interest on Instana's observability especially the tra...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

INGOMX SOAP fault response

Normally, when a SOAP request is sent successfully to the SOAP server, the server responds with HTTP 200, and INGOMX writes the SOAP response to console. But in case of an error, especially HTTP 500 - Internal Error, INGOMX writes only the HTTP re...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

ZMDES DISPLAY full path display needed

ZMDES DISPLAY doesn't always display the full path to files. Comments from the PMR state that file paths are longer than we can fit in the tabular display. Those get shortened. The end of the path is deemed most important, since the assumption is ...
almost 6 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.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

DB2 backup for S3 storage (Simple Storage Service)

DB2's Cloud Storage Support The direct support for S3 storage (Simple Storage Service) is definitely a great feature from IBM introduced with v11.1, that helps particularly to write backups and read them from anywhere. However, there are still som...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 0 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...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Avoid writing over unarchived JT files after message EQQN180W is issued by controller

In the subject PMR 65928,L6Q,000 (the files for which are available under internal PMR 53795,999,000 ) the JTARC filled up (B37) after which all the JT files were used but could NOT be copied to the JTARC file. This resulted in EQQZ045E for normal...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 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...
about 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...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Remote Resource API fo Associate Program to a COPYBOOK

We need the ability to programmatically associate a Program to a COPYBOOK
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration