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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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Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search. In critical in case we have 500+ elements for DBB

Improve to include a SEARCH facility to perform a member search in situations where the customer needs to handle 500+ elements for DBB.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 3 Future consideration

TWS product development to support zcentric agents in a Natted environment

Need to be ableto support Zcentric agents in a Natt'd enviroment.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Improve performance of Code Review in z/OS batch mode

Performance of Code Review in Batch needs to be improved. Today the performance is not sufficient. Each time a new JVM is started. When it is running as part of the build it is critical to ensure throughput and cpu consumption.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Unable to pass headers for OAUTH2 apiRequester

Customer has an api requestor that is configured to use oauth2 but the JWT provider requires a scope parm and a http header Client-Application be sent. Looking to do this in the server.xml.
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor

Having possibility to add a parameter with related to existing pointer parameter on the zUnit editor
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 6 Not under consideration

Call Perform Hierarchy from Program Control Flow

You show a Cobol programm in the Programm Control Flow View. Please add an entry to the contextmenu to link this view to the Perform Hierarchy View. Something like "show this section in the Perform Hierarchy". The two views show different but cloe...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

CSL Environment startup parameters values should be displayed at IMS and CSL environment startup time.

The contents of IMS Proclib Member DFSDCxxx , CSL Proclib Member DFSCGxxx , SCI Proclib Member CSLSIxxx , OM Proclib Member CSLOIxxx and RM Proclib Member CSLRIxxx should be displayed at IMS and CSL environment Tasks startup time in the same way t...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 6 Not under consideration

Newcopy of Liberty Application in CICS

In CICS V5.3. it is possible to phasein a OSGI bundle A Liberty application can't be phasein, that is proberly because the application need to be stopped and restarted to do the operation. It would be nice to have a newcopy function for this. beca...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time

1) Screen to show IMS trans by class with arrival/processing rates, input Q time and elapsed response time Should be in XE and 3270
almost 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Need function to run CDP Log Forwarder data source discovery function on demand

Provide a function to allow the Common Data Provider data source discovery function to run once, when commanded by a user. This would often be used when Discovery Interval and Pattern Discovery Interval are set to 0 (due to CPU usage requirements)...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release