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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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AD - Pop up alert to broadcast notification to end users.

In the current AD version there is no facility to broadcast notification alert to user's community, instead we usually send information to application discovery users via email distributions. This idea is about introducing new feature to notify ma...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

User can provide baseline value in Profiling reports

Now the Profiling report's baseline must be the other day's SMF data.But we want to set our own baseline value.
over 1 year ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

FM-LoadModule Analyzer should extract SQL SubOptions when listing CompilerOptions

When using the FM-LoadModule-Analyzer, we can list the compiler options of the load modules. If the program uses SQL, we see "SQL" as COBOL-option, but not the used SubOption. We need it specially for recognizing the ATTACH(TSO/CAF/ULI)-Option. So...
over 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

move GDPS to run under ansible as compare to NetView

Unify automation solution, increase UNIX usage on z/OS and reduce software cost.
10 months ago in GDPS 4 Not under consideration

change in the behavior of SMOOTHSUBRATE

We have evaluated the use of smoothsubrate in our workload. many thanks for your explanation in the case TS009434150 The current function with the SMOOTHSUBRATE parm is not appropriate for our use, because 1. All workstations (incl general worksta...
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

DEDB's - Move SDEPs to a secondary ADS

We face an issue where a single DEDB area can use vast amounts of SDEPs under a single root. This has led us to be max size 4gb on the ADS with no room for future growth. Our only option currently is to look to move off of IMS DEDB's and SDEPs. Th...
over 1 year ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

RDz - Editors Compare results sharing and save

In RDz Editors , Compare is much better than what we have had on the Host systems SUPERC or File Manager compare , especially for the source code comparisons. We would like to have the ability to save the comparison results to a file, which we cou...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Time Stamp Display Format (GMT/Local)

We are requesting the ability to choose the display format of the Time Stamp in CICS Explorer - Completed Tasks to be either GMT or Local time. We would like to publish reports on Completed Task but with a Time Stamp "hard-coded" as GMT will confu...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Stateless non-use Tpipes to be cleared after 2 checkpoints instead of 3

Currently stateless non-use tpipes are cleared after 3 checkpoints. Due to potential high volume of stateless tpipes would like the system to clear them sooner to avoid resource shortages. This specifically comes into play for us due the increased...
over 2 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Future consideration

When configuring LDAP/SDBM remove the need for a static 'admin' ID with password and ROAUDIT access

An ideal situation would be if the initial LDAP bind and subsequent query to determine group membership could be conducted under each individual user's specific DN. Under LDAP/SDBM the following bind and search returns multiple LDAP attributes for...
10 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

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