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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

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

Add F1MB statistics to ZDECB addr for specific ECB address

F1MB statistics are missing from the ZDECB display of an ECB address. These stats are available in ZDECB STATS. For example: >zdecb stats sort-f1mb DECB0014I 18.53.39 DISPLAY ECB SUMMARY ECB ADDR SSU IS PGM TRC MIN SC MILS F4K F1MB FIND FIL...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 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

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

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

Provide a way to monitor expiration dates of SSL peer certificates.

With Network compliance display (ZDCOM), we have a good tool to monitor expiration dates of local z/TPF certificates. But there are a large number of remote peer certificates for which we have no tool to monitor their expiration dates. Impact of e...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

More granularity with BROWSE mode RACF configuration for LPARs and CICS environments

General Dynamics IT (GDIT) has installed the PD Tools. They have a shared RACF data base between production and development. They want to limit production use of the debugger with BROWSE mode on specific LPARs and CICS regions. Today, this is not ...
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 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

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

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