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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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Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Trailing Quote

AAM requires the trailing quote be entered to complete the data set name on the control member panel. ISPF applications commonly making the trailing quote mark optional to improve ease of use. AAM will issue a confusing error message indicating th...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Variable re-use

The AAM ISPF dialogs should remember last used dataset names and entries to improve usability. Especially the control member dialogs.
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Short Message Support

When performing functions under the control member management menu it would be good if the product took advantage of the ISPF short message field to indicate actions like member saved, syntax check successful, unsuccessful, Etc.
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Move module INGTXFPG to SINGMOD2

Hi SA development,Please move the new INGTXFPG module that comes in SA v3.4 to SINGMOD2 library as default.Since the SINGMOD2 library must be in the LINKLIST as documented in the SA manual.Including the new module INGTXFPG in the SINGMOD2 will ens...
about 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Future consideration

API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables

Please create API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables for following requirements. 1.Identify and extract the datasets accessed by the given job list / transaction list / webservice list /CICS main program list from cross dependency projects .2...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Support of SQL Merge statements in the make / build process

Complex merge statements in the SQL command are not yet supported in the make / build process.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

z/TPF SNAP dumps - option to SERRC

We propose adding code to IBM segments that contain SNAP dump code to have an option to take a SERRC instead. The segment can interrogate a new Format-2 Global. If the IBM segment name is found in the global, take a SERRC instead of a SNAP dump. I...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

DWC Display of Script/JCL

But now, our users is pursuing the job log displayed from DWC to include the script/JCL of the job itself as in SCRPTLIB or script.sh in job output folder. Is it possible for you to: 1. Update the code of DWC to include the script.sh to the out.lo...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CTG Registered Stakeholder Identifier

We would like to register ASG Technologies for a CTG Stakeholder Identifier for the letter "T". We plan to take advantage of the new CTG 9.3 Selective Tracking Token Data.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Automatic clear out old PROG and TRAN errors from the STATS file.

SA automation creates error entries in the SA STATS files for IMS and CICS transaction and program entries. These entries never get cleared out, so the STATS file can slowly grow over time. As programs and transactions can change over time (partic...
over 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration