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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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Centralize the Documentation on the Lookup tables

Support Staff will better be able to determine how and why to update the Lookup tables.
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Let the Customer's DB2 Staff manage the Data Base Tables

Support for the software will be easier to manage. Trying to make sure the tables get updated with every upgrade is error prone requiring component reinstalls to fix missing tables / views. DB2 staff at a customer are always more intune with the i...
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

improve messages from DFH$MOLS job when they encounter "CONNECTOR NOT DEFINED" error.

It is not clear at all from current messages, when customers encounter the good old missing a dictionary record problem, when running the DFH$MOLS job. They get something like: X'019E' - CONNECTOR NOT DEFINED; REPORT IS TERMINATED The reason for t...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Enhance mvscmd and mvscmdauth to be able to work with Datasets allocated using SUBSYS Parameter

As part of our CI/CD Pipeline we want to copy load modules from one System of a SYSPLEX (our BUILD System) to another System on a foreign SYSPLEX (our Test System). In our “old” JCL based build system we do use JCL to call a Software called CSM (C...
almost 3 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 2 Future consideration

Support for EXPORT when parsing JCL in zUnit

When zUnit is pasring a JCL for recording which includes "EXPORT SYMLIST=*" you get an error "EQA3140E Invalid input: EXPORT" Since a lot of our existing JCLs are useing EXPORT it would be nice if supprt for it was included in zUnit instead of nee...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Show progress when copying multiple files in USS

The progress bar currently goes crazy when copying multiple big files from USS.It seems to handle progress well only when copying a single file.When copying multiple files, it seems to jump from one to the next very quickly, which makes it impossi...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

EQQADMIN needs to be modifiable without RACF command

Currently EQQADMIN can only be put into effect via issuing of RACF commands such as RDEFINE EQQADMIN AUTOMAPPING APPLDATA(‘NO’/'YES')or RDEFINE EQQADMIN DWC_userID@Hostname APPLDATA(‘RACF_userID’). If the RACF class EQQADMIN is defined and enabled...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Forward API information to service.

Information defined in the api itself as properties such as api name, api version and base path can be needed in the underlying service application programs. Such properties of the api should be available to map into the data to the service.In the...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Implement dynamic-capacity tables

Implement dynamic-capacity tables as defined by the COBOL 2014 standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 1989:2014 [2014]).
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Missing Data Capture Exit Support for IMS Open Database Access

Updates to IMS databases via Open database access do not trigger the database capture exit routines.
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration