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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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TimeZone control for BAQVERBOSE messages

Timestamps on BAQVERBOSE messages reflect UTC not the local TimeZone. We would like to have the ability to control this.
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Multiple windows for SQL Results

When using the Data perspective to run SQL you have to independently click on the SQL results to view the result for each run in the right hand window. Suggestion would be to make it possible to break out each result into its own movable window, b...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Automatic Binary Optimizer - Remove EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND restriction

Automatic Binary Optimizer is a product used to improve the performance of already compiled IBM COBOL programs. The optimizer does not require source code, source code migration, or performance options tuning. It uses modern optimization technolog...
over 8 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade using AD plugin is not a good experience

Customer has issues with AD plugin upgrade as it has to be locally pushed to every desktop for users for the product. If a user accidentally updates the AD plugin and if other users are at a different level , then the project is corrupted. Custome...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

To allow one to Unload an IMS Database with the option of Deferring EPS/ILK Load when Migrating from FF to HALDB

It is useful because it reduces the time from days to minutes to unload FF Databases using MIGRATE or MIGRATX, literally. (If you get it work like BMC of course). In a recent exercise, one of the MIGRATE Unloads had been running for 4 days. We wou...
9 months ago in IMS Database Reorganization Expert for z/OS  / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions

We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That gives us a new requirement for protection of our user scripts.User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.
over 3 years ago in GDPS 3 Planned for future release

AUTHDEF TRACE ( SAF trace ) needs to be started/stop via command instead of restarting the controller task

Currently to trace security issues in Z workload scheduler it is necessary to alter the controller parms to have TRACE(8) in AUTHDEF, cycle the controller, collect the EQQMLOG, then set TRACE(0) again and cycle the controller again. This makes it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

zUnit : allow ENTRY statement in BMP programs

When creating/modifying a test case with the dynamic test runner (BZUPLAY), make then ENTRY-statement supported.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

User Customizable ATTN key handling

Default handling of the ATTN key requires two presses of the key to pass ATTN through to the application. We would like this to be an option, possibly in the global profile, to be able to set the default action to allow the first press of ATTN to ...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

New tables KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_LP_T

Create KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T & KPMZ_CPUMF1_LP_T respectively similar to KPMZ_CPUMF1_T & KPMZ_CPUMFM1_T tables but including LP number in key
9 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Needs more information

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