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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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CICS Transaction to main program dependency/flow isn't getting established

CICS resources extract process cannot capture auto-installing modules because program definitions are commonly not defined either in CSD or CPSM. As a result of which ADDI is not establishing dependency/flow from transaction to the main program ev...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Dependent DB2 Objects Discovery

1. Pull in dependent Db2 objects that are required for Views, RI, and aliases. We currently have our own process to do this.2. If not already supported – Db2 stored procs, User defined functions and user defined data types
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Insert User Data to the TAD/Z repository

For regulators, auditors, and many other consumers, we need to marry software usage data with LPAR MSU, license expiration, EOM, EOL data, contractual limitations (e.g. Perpetual license, LPAR based license, ELA, Sub-Capacity License etc...). Like...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Future consideration

New type-2 update/query cmd support for LOGSTR

Add command support for the LOGSTR parameter in IMS PROCLIB member DFSYDT.. that is used to specify the behaviour on how IMS will share the NSCP information with RACF. Today it's difficult to verify the content of LOGSTR and the installation can o...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Request to change the operation when purged the job log

TWS not status update before Tracker start (152799) As requested in, the CP status may be "S" even though the job was completed during host maintenance. In this state, if the job log is purged ($ HASP250 output), EQQE036I will be output by TWS and...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CICS Identify QMGR from QR-TCB to OPEN-TCB

Please change CICS function 'Identify QMGR' from QR-TCB to OPEN-TCB, for detail please reference case num:TS009163460
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

PL/I-Editor Automatically clear Identifications when you would like to format a source

At the moment you can't format a source when you have pre-processor information for that source available. So you need to clear all identifications manually in order to run the formatter. The formatter is very important for us because eg we do all...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

E3270UI - Add Userid and Wait Time Fields to Address Space Overview - "CPU Utilization Summary" Panel KM5ASPO

The USERID for a batch job and the wait time was requested by operations staff. They previously used the Omegamon for z/OS CUA product to monitor batch jobs, but when we migrated to V550 the CUA products were deprecated. The wait time would be th...
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

API for pipeline and automation use to discover status

For automation purposes we need to know when a project is ready for discovery. This includes all 3 phases (Build server processes: [1]Build/Make & [2]API resolution; AD server process: Batch server [3] callgraph update, etc.). The automation p...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Ability to manage key archival from EKMF-Web and carry the attribute forward to the CKDS

Today EKMF-Web does not support key archival where ICSF does. As our key management platform we would like to initiate/manage key archival from EKMF-Web and have the metadata updated on the CKDS when archival is performed. It would also make sense...
over 2 years ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / EKMF Web 1 Future consideration