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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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In a resource overrides .yaml file, allow multiple attribute values within a single selector clause to be OR'd.

Currently the logic would seem to support 1 attribute value on a given selector clause. If I have a resource attribute which can have many possible values and I want to trap some set of those values and apply the same override to each one, I have ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Future consideration

Software Analysis : code review rules for C programs

Many rules are defined for COBOL, PL1 or JAVA programs, but none for C programs.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 2 Not under consideration

Enable recording for Cobol VS II

We are in a process to migrate from Cobol II to Enterprise Cobol and zVTP would be a great resource to help us test but we can't record using Cobol II, we've got an abend S0C4 during the recording.
over 1 year ago in Z Virtual Test Platform 0 Future consideration

Prevent Duplicate TIMER's

Currently if an Operator is modified in the Policy Database for a TIMER, and a new ACF is refreshed into SA it causes a duplication in TIMER's: one for the previously defined Operator and one for the newly defined Operator. Create SA functionality...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

E/AS Mutiple ServerLocation support

All other products (ITM, etc) can send EIF events to multiples Omminibus servers simultaneously but not Netview EAS.Today we need to start a second EAS task to achieve this goal. I think that functionality could be useful for other customes too.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Possibility to save in a file the list of all dependencies by running it in batch or save the list under ISPF.

We have the need to export the list of all dependencies of an application in a file. Currently this list is only available under ISPF (Option 9 ALL DEPS of SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION) We'd like to have a WAPPL comman...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

PARSE support for CSV files

Some of our systems are required to ingest CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files from other platforms. Presently we use SORT or other utility to convert the file to fixed format before passing it to COBOL for processing. In a few cases the COBOL pr...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Adding filtering capabilities to the TDI datasets

In an SMU widget you can choose different Omegamon datasets, but there is a difference between the TDI datasets and the original datasets. If you choose the TDI datasets there are no filter options (filter on 'Managed System Name' and no 'Prelimin...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

Add Menu Manager action for editor opened with JES Submitted JCL

Please add a Menu Manager context for the JCL Editor when the JES Show JCL option is used.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Allow advanced filtering of Show In > Data Elements information

Filtering on name is very limited. More advanced filtering on Name, Top-level-Item, Declared In and Item Type should be provided. The Data Elements view could be a powerful feature if more advanced filter is provided. Most of our developers only u...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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