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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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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...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Allow maintenance of SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3

The SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3 records user logon/logoff times. This table grows and grows as users are added and deleted. There is no management of the table. I would be good if either the record for a user was deleted when other tables related to a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

ISSUEACT to support threshold name in the thres parm

Update ISSUEACT to support dynamic thresholds supplied by the user.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Check-box Remoter Error List

Regarding to a request TS003124951 i asked if ther was some checkbox to check so when run Remote Syntax Error of a cobolprogram the Remote error list could be filled with warnings and errors.If it is not the current active view this could be confu...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration

Send history of all completed TX tasks to Tivoli Monitoring with detailed task information as seen on the MONQ records

Currently Tivoli Monitoring for TX produces task history records only for those tasks which happen to be active precisely on the expiration of monitoring interval. Thus only a small fraction of all tasks. We would like to see all completed tasks i...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Include CRL pem files as part of the ZPUBK REHASH process

Early in the design of our support of SSL, we decided to combine the CA certificates into one file and use the CAFILE config parameter. We went from 3 CA certificates to 22 CA certificates, also daily we create a new CA file that is combined with ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

support error message during startup

Keep Status Messages (Halted, Breaking, Broken, Abending, Abended) of resources over UP-Message(s). Allow threshold processing to issue commands for INFR, FREQ, CRIT during Startup-process Simular to MTR-resources allow to issue commands if Thresh...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Workload Service Assurance

Workload Service Assurance: When the Estimated Start Time or optionally the Estimated End Time of a critical job has past and the job has not started, automatically recalculate new Estimated Start and End Times for the critical job. Even with RECC...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

FM/IMS Database Compare

This Idea is for a FM/IMS function to do a formatted/synchronized database compare. The goal is to compare a database before and after it is changed, to report on what changed. This is probably a multi-step process: Generate and run a batch job to...
over 2 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Save Menu Manager variables

When displaying a menu window. It displays the default values that we defined (Windows -> Preferences -> Menu Manager -> Actions and Menus). Is there a way to remember the user last choice? So when I set a library name, it will be display...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

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