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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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Service Management Unite Automation and Z-ChatOps included in ZDT.

"Service Management Unite Automation" and "Z-ChatOps" are included with the following products (free of charge): IBM Z Service Management Suite IBM Z Service Automation Suite IBM Z Monitoring Suite IBM Z System Automation As ADCD system includes "...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Apply EELEXIT so it assembles with RC=0 for IATUX19

Regarding "Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed - Agent for z/OS V9.4." Regarding EELEXIT. Assembling JES3 exit IATUX19 results in HLASM RC=4 and fails the SMPE APPLY into our zOS/JES CSI which expects HLASM RC=0. Looking at the assembler listing...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

SLDSREAD to retry automatically on secondary dataset

Testing the new feature SLDSREAD on IMS v11 and we have found a situation that we think is not correct. IMS always tries to mount the primary SLDS dataset even though it has an i/o error, it has been deleted or it has been marked in error. Several...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Issue informational message when QBUFMAX parameter was reached

Customer faced two hung situations where QBUFMAX parameter was reached. They would like to receive a message when this parameter was reached and also if, during initialization the QBUFMAX value is the same as QBUF specification
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 5 Not under consideration

Include IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 2.1 to ADCD stack

I'm z/OS System Programmer and I use ZDT Personal Edition and ADCD to learn about installations/configurations and test new functions in z/OS. ZDT is mainly designed for developing, but i think it is a very useful tool for System Programmers too. ...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

This is a test idea raised via the new Z Software portal

This is for testing purposes
almost 3 years ago in Record Generator for Java 0 Not under consideration

IDz headless Code Coverage daemon support CCS call to remove all cc files generated

Support the CCS REST API call to delete all the file generated by code coverage daemon. Currently only the .cczip file will be deleted.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide batch program to read temporary storage queues

Provide CICS batch utility to browse temporary storage queues.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DEF for VSAM with AIX in FileManager brings only Cluster, no AIX or PATH

Re-Engineering an VSAM-Cluster with AIX and PATH with FileManager-Command DEF brings only "Define Cluster"-Statement. AIX and PATH have to be generated separately. But VSAM with AIX is like a Bundle, in nearly all cases you need all parts of it.
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

WEB UI functions to show volumes and datasets being provisioned

Client is deploying Wazi Sandbox. During the "Restoring z/OS dataset" step of the provisioning, for any dataset that is duplicated, the provision process stops and request a manual intervention. This idea is a request to provide a function that sh...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

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