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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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Giving clues to RDz user on parser Cobol disabling

Cobol Editor syntax features are disabled when Cobol parser enounters major errors in edited code. This behaviour is inidcated by a cross added to the icon toolbox. Then user's job consists in solving each blocking error wich can be quite long and...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

IMS Support for VSAM Linear database Buffer pools 64 bit addressable

Support for VSAM LINEAR datasets for IMS databases was delivered for the enhancement for databases dataset encryption in 2020. The buffer pools for VSAM LINEAR datasets are still treated like OSAM buffer pools with 31 bit addressability. Anthem ha...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Enhance GETSYSWORD - USERID

USERID (Batch job submitter's User ID)USERNAME (Batch job submitter's User Name)
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Planned for future release

Possibility to automate ProcOps ISQ-messages in order to write it to the syslog - i.e. defined capacity changes

We want to automate ISQ-messages in order to write the into the syslog.Thats not completly possible, because they are written by PIPEs without an EXPOSE stage.
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top

Possibility to add Menu Manager written functions to the "tool bar" at the top .And to the favorit "bar"
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

When an ISV vendor has a comma in their name remove it before populating the IZSAM Db2 repository.

There are several ISV vendors with a comma in there company name and when you use the data extracted from IZSAM in CSV format this creates an issue when reading the file with another program. If you were to scan the ISV vendor company name and rem...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 3 Not under consideration

Enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4)

We need to enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4) to complete a job with an error state. Currently, there is no post-EQQMEP1L confirmation panel that requires you to verify a job data before completing your job. Because of ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add SQL counts columns to KPM_DB2_PACKAGE tables

Add columns to KPM_DB2_PACKAGE tables :SQL_SELECT SQL_INSERT SQL_UPDATE SQL_MERGE SQL_DELETE SQL_OPEN SQL_FETCH SQL_CLOSE
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Requester Endpoint not in server.xml

At the current level of zos/Connect v3 you have to set the endpoint url in server.xml. This is the worst choise to place it. Why? 1) Security reason: Modifikation of server.xml. If you use static zos/connect instances (not zospt) the chance is ver...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Critical Path

I'm wondering if additional information can be provided when message EQQCP21I is generated. It would be helpful if the list of predecessors on the critical path that caused the message to be generated could be captured some where along with the es...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

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