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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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Change FM option modules to be standard PARMLIB "styled" members.

Convert FMN0POPT, FMN1POPT, FMN2POPT, and FMN3POPT to a PARMLIB that re read during product startup. This really has slowed down the install process because we need to apply usermods to our maintenance volumes and migrate to each system. When you ...
almost 13 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

MTR command length needs to be increased

The current Activate , Deactivate & Monitor commands are limited to 159 characters. It would be nice if there was the ability to add additional linese
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Optional Source IP Address for TESTPORT

Customers like Lockheed Martin/CMS use TESTPORT and like it but need to specify an optional sourve VIPA or source IP address in order for TESTPORT to reach the target socket/port. Right now TESTPORT takes the main IP address of the associated stac...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Add customization/rules for 'Code Coverage'

This is request to add 'customization/rules' to 'Code Coverage'. One example, is 'ELSE' statements for each DB2 SQL statement. All 'ELSE' statements are marked as 'not covered' and report statistics do not provide accurate picture. Number may be c...
almost 13 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

New PyCSM and pyds8k packages to support IBM disk migrations

IBM Disk management team is making use of Python for disk migrations and we need additional Python packages installed to downloads.pyaitoolkit.ibm.net We were asked by IBM to get the following for the disk management tools: PyCSM https://pypi.org/...
12 months ago in Python AI Toolkit for IBM z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for multiple Vertical Name-Value Pair metrics collection in Realtime Runtime Metrics Collection (RTMC)

Currently RTMC supports a single Vertical NVP collection based on the ECB Owner High field where the performance metrics of an ECB can be subdivided based on each time the Vertical NVP (ECB Owner High) changes. If ECB Owner High is changed as an E...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Increase NVP block size

We anticipate sending 40-100 NVPs including NVP metrics. As such, we are concerned that the maximum size of the name value pair area of 4k may be too small at this time.
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Future consideration

RTMC NVP metric support

Today, name-value pairs can be horizontal or vertical annotations of the message being processed. We need to be able to send customer defined metrics as part of the name-value pair data as metrics that behave as data columns instead of the as anno...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 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...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Display dataspaces alloacte for region

In the classic interface under U.K we could see the size of the dataspace allocation for the region. I did not see this facility in the E3270. For tracking the growth and managing the size of our utilization of data tables to is very important to ...
12 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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