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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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Queue Status Display should include Last Put/Get Date & Time, Message Age, and Queue Existence Times

We need the ability to see the LGETDATE, LGETTIME, LPUTDATE, LPUTTIME, MSGAGE and QTIME on the ZMQSC DIS QL-qname STAT command similar to the MQ distributed platform. dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTOR) 12 : dis qs(NAVS.AASWCF.TO.AVS.DISTRIBUTO...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

IMS Explorer Access Control

IMS Explorer is eclipse based solution which is used to define connection and interaction profiles to target IMS systems along with service and transaction definitions. As these two activities are performed by different roles. Fine grain access co...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Dojo MenuBar

Hi,please add the Dojo MenuBar widget. https://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.10/dijit/MenuBar.html
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Have GDPS scripts check for themselves as to whether systems have been shutdown

MGMM_SWITCH_ABCD_CDAB and any other 3/4 site procedure issues prompts to confirm systems are down.We would like the script to check for itself, and not issue prompts - the information is available to GDPS.
about 10 years ago in GDPS 3 Not under consideration

UPDATE ING141I MESSAGE TO INCLUDE DETAILS OF THE TEXT SENT

When an alert is successfully set, you get an informational message in the NETLOG: ING141I SENDING OF ALERT 'SEVMINOR' FOR 'CNMPROC/APL/S104' WAS SUCCESSFUL It would be useful if the text sent in the alert could be included.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

a way to show the resources deployed in an application or bundles in target environment

After deploy CICS application or a bunch of bundles, user want to know how many resources are deployed to target system. They want to get a list of the resources' name. It could be a view in CICS explorer or a batch to generate a list. Similar to ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Usable Program Control Flow for RPP

Given how RPP 9.5.1.7 generates Cobol code with many paragraph names, the Program Control Flow view is completely unusable. We would like a usable Program Control Flow for RPP integrated with RDZ/IDZ Debug. I spoke with Bill Alexander at the IDZ u...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

RPP - Search with cross-reference key in Input Aid's –D Lines tab

In RPP , search with cross-reference key in Input Aids D Lines tab don't give any detail (value entered in variable part) For example, in RPP, search for the instances that contain the key AUTEUR in Input Aid REMONT : we have a list of entities th...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

make userdefined extensions for using zUnit available thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

TS010125970 Allow customization of Wazi Image Builder

Hi, On all our z/OS Sysplexes , we have a shared read-only root filesystem, as recommended by IBM for better performance and reliability. Wazi image builder requires a Jar file wibMainframeSFTP.jar to be copied to /usr/lpp/IBM/wib - a location tha...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration