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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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Display full graph with steps, programs and data sets in a batch job.

For visualizing the JCL of a batch job we can now choose between these Mainframe Graphs in AD: - 'Job Flow', which lists the steps within the job, but not the programs.- 'Job Callgraph', which shows the different programs being called, but does no...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Set LL value for IMS msg

A middleware application at the bank is responsible for sending data from branch applications back to IMS on the host and process the response back. The middleware team is looking to modernize this application to communicate to IMS using z/OS Conn...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

DSECT should be documented in COBOL

Serviceability
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Omegamon IMS zIIP exploitation

We use TEPS for detailed monitoring on IMSPlex enviorenment. After a while some of Omegamon adress spaces started to use high CPU. We monitor region occupancy, global lock conflicts, region statistics from TEPS. Since these monitoring functions ca...
almost 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Client 1 Future consideration

CETR PF5 SET TRANSACTION TRACING(cvda) - Transactions defined in bundles should behave consistently and CETR not abend AEIP

I think a good enhancement (thats doesn't need any recovery over cics restarts) would be to allow SET TRANSACTION TRACING(cvda) for transactions defined from bundles Currently INVREQ resp2 300 is issued whilst using CETR to change the tracing leve...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' between columns is not correctly limited

COBOL Editor 'Search text in File' results are notcorrect when 'Restrict Search to columns' is set.Euro Info is expecting to have results which are included between the 'Start' column and 'End' column.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the sum() builtin function and add two siblings

The SUM builtin function is a very useful feature of PL/I. However, unlike many other builtin functions it does not accept structures as argument.
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

An enhancement to the IMS Universal Drivers and Open Database Manager to allow for batching IMS segment data for the keyed segment and all of its dependent/child segments

Currently the JDBC driver allows for batching off a specific SSA list. Our application requires a way to fetch segments of varying parentage that do not conform to a single SSA. For example, We have a three level hierarchy of SEGMENT1, SEGMENT2, A...
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Future consideration

Creation of a QUIET parameter in Supersession

Create a Quiet parameter in Supersession that creates fewer messages that are logged into the TLVLOG for normal circumstances. Currently the logging of messages is considerable, and most are unnecessary unless trying to PD a problem. There is curr...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support multiple versions of DB2 bind

When we upgrade/apply mainteance to TOM, sometimes it requires running DB2 bind and backout is to rebind with old packages. It'll be helpful if TOM can support multiple versions of DB2 bind so we can run different maintenance levels with just STEP...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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