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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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zUNIT: input file with >7000 lines leads to JAVA heap issue

Large input file in zUNIT with number of lines ( > 7000 lines ) leads to issue. Need solution or best practice to work with large input files. IBM CASE: TS009275317
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Help identifying moves causing invalid numeric values

Different move statements can cause invalid numeric values to be stored in numbers.This will cause dumps when compiling with NUMPROC(PFD) and ZONEDATA(PFD). We would like the compiler to help the programmers identify these statements at compile ti...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Tracking Outbound of the Z

Currently zAPM supports tracking inbound and outbound between Sysplexes over MQ, but it does not currently support calls/transactions going outbound of the Z to another distributed application monitored by AppDynamics. When will outbound (E2E trac...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

zAPM to support iSeries

Include support for iSeries systems, in addition to zSeries
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Not under consideration

need to add AD Parser support for Control-M DOCOND statement

We us the DOCOND statement in our Control-M environment. This is connected to case TS015149717 which contains code examples.
10 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Enable SQL simple comments in FM/Db2

Why useful: CA FILE-AID (and QMF) supports SQL simple comments, but FM/Db2 does not. With this enhancement it will be easier for their users to transition to FM. FM/Db2 just ignores any statements after an in-line '--' comment. SQL simple comments...
10 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

"Unreachable code" should not be considered as a syntax errors

If Identifity unreachable code is selected as "Warning" in Preferences / COBOL/ Real-time syntax checking, new errors appears in Software Analyzer. Theese errors could not be corrected while code is generated with RPP and it would be useful they d...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

pipe PARSE function in EDIT STage should permit the utilization of Hex Strings.

Command output may have data separators of specific hexstrings instead of the standard X'40' Currently the Edit stage does not permit the usage of hexString in the PARSE function which indicates you cannot separate the data.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Parmgen enhancement for OMEGAMON XE z/OS 5.3, XE CICS 5.3, PE for DB2 5.3, MQ 7.3 etc.

RFE for Parmgen OMEGAMON XE z/OS 5.3, XE CICS 5.3, PE for DB2 5.3, MQ 7.3 etc.: We have several user modified members in different libs which we always have to take care not to overwrite them by parmgen.Most customized members are in RKANPARU or R...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Future consideration

Replace /usr/lpp/cicsts in the CICS Web Assistant script with a variable similar to PATHPREF or USSDIR

Remove hard coded zFS address from the DFHLS2WS (and associated) scripts
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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