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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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ADDI: Impact analysis between programs

The user specifies at least 2 programs between which the direct and indirect (via other programs) calls could be made. Programs, which are not in the call chain between the indicated programs, are not indicated in the diagram. Other artifacts such...
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Digital - default range machine for enhanced signal producing device for water splitting

Digital default machine-device for enhanced signal producing device with inbuilt provision in cars for water splitting feature supported by small size quantum battery with automatic on / off facility
12 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Abends in the Software due to Deadlocks, Buffer full, etc.

When the product abends manual intervention is required to restart it. This requires support staff to determine the cause and restart the task. It also requires that a case be opened that your staff has to review and respond it, wasting time, then...
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Centralize the Documentation on the Lookup tables

Support Staff will better be able to determine how and why to update the Lookup tables.
12 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...
12 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...
12 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Cloud Agnostic Interface

In order to support multiple cloud providers, define a pluggable interface or an adaptor interface that will be able to accommodate a few different major cloud providers, such as * Google compute engines * Amazon Some cloud providers support the a...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

adcd install advanced archive for DFSMSHSM

I am interested in trying to use HSM to backup to a NAS......... and I learning about (and blogging about) IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aafd/1.1) so I can backup to minio on Linux
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

RBAC for components & images

Provide read access right to individual images/components so only selected individuals/groups or all users have access to image.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Continue commenting when inserting a line break within a comment

Hi IBM, when you edit a comment in a COBOL source in the COBOL editor and you hit ENTER (aka you insert a new line), the new line should be automatically a comment line. At the moment, the cursor is being positioned on the beginning of the text in...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

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