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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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Enhance IMS to be able to do decimal compares on DL/I calls

Current IMS only performs binary compares when a DL/I call contains a qualified SSA. This is a problem for packed and zoned decimal values and comparisons with >, >=, < and <=. Because IMS only performs binary comparisons a DL/I call c...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Future consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for transaction rate falls to zero and remains at zero

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for recursive S0C* abends

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for Max Tasks (MXT)

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams. It would be better if it can respond when a region is approaching MXT from say 75% then 80%...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhancing Health Checker for Short-on-Storage (SOS) above or below the line

We believe this will add value to Health Checker for CICS. The same monitoring and alert generation mechanism can provide a consistent UI to support teams.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

More capitalization options in auto formatter

We would like to have some more specific options on capitalization/uppercase/lowercase/mixed-case functions for "user defined words" in the Cobol Editors autoformatter: A) An option only to rework user defined words in Procedure Divison matching t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Add "Associate Complete Program" to the RSE

In z/OS project view, "Associate Complete Program" appears when a user right clicks on a PL/I Include file or a COBOL copybook.But it is not available when a user right clicks on these types of files from the RSE view.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

HOD FTP need the ability to connect to FTP/S server with Implicit TLS (No AUTH TLS command)

Currently the HOD FTP client is only able to connect to a server that is configured for Explicit TLS (AUTH TLS) which starts with a non-secure connection then converts to a secure connection. Our site has a restriction that there should not be non...
about 1 year ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

CL/SUPERSESSION F3/F12 ADM panels

When using the KLSADME1 Administrator Menu for any of the three options available the customer is only allowed to use F12 to “Cancel” from the panel at all levels beyond the initial panel. Option 1 - KLSSAP11 Profile Selection MenuOption 2 - KLSAL...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - Autoinstalled programs

Building the AD repository for a project does not support CICS Autoinstalled programs
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration