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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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EQQJOBS support for the "million jobs" SPE (SPE9308) is missing in 9.5 releaseOPo

There is no EQQJOBS selection for the use of the "million jobs" function (parameters MCPDATASPACE and CPDATASPACE) even though there are quite a bit of things that need to be customized - file definitions (EQQPCS01 job),the parameters for BATCH jo...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Can RBD please be compatible with Mac OS Ventura?

This would be very useful as at the moment RBD doesn't support any later release than Mac OS 11, which is 2 mainline versions older than the current Ventura 13.3.1 Therefore as it stands, any IBMer, or any client using a modern Mac would not be ab...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

End-to-End Transaction Tracing from containerized service through DataPower to Mainframe (CICS)

With the industry’s focus on SRE it is critical to be able to trace an application transaction from the frontend application, through DataPower, to the various SoR(s) on the Mainframes. OpenTelemetry is a new standard allowing technical users to t...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 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

I want to order single products of a licensed suite

We use the IBM products System Automation and Netview, which we now want to replace with subsequent releases. In our current contract with IBM, however, these products are no longer licensed and can therefore not be ordered using Shopz, even tho...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Shopz 1 Not under consideration

Compare the test cases/entries in zUnit test case editor

Compares the test contents of two or more test cases defined in zUnit.For example, we would like to compare the test cases with the test cases that we want to implement based on a single test case, such as a last successful test case.Users can cho...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Switching between transactions to debug is no longer possible in the new version of Debugger

A test user has registered many transactions, as sometimes one transaction is debugged and sometimes the other. In this case, however, only one transaction should be debugged. With the newly installed version of the debug tool (V16.02), it is now ...
7 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Transfer Recoup statistics out of TPF using RTMC

We need Recoup data sent from TPF to our offline analyitcs tool, to enable Recoup checkout.
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

New CFRECOVER script command at CF level

Our company has external and internal CFs in both MM Sites. During maintenance activities sometime there is a need to empty one of the CFs and populate to the other CFs based on the PREFLIST. In GDPS there is a script command that allows to empty ...
about 3 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

WEB RECEIVE timeout

The WEB RECEIVE timeout value is the RTIMOUT on the profile. We need to be able to dynamically, to controle the timeout value. This could be solved if the WEB RECEIVE was enhanced to include a option 'TIMEOUT' to controle the timeout time. The TIM...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration