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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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Python and PL1 integration interface

Provide an interface to call PL1 modules from Python (and possibly vice versa). The interface shall support the passing of parameters and ideally works in both directions (Python calling PL1, PL1 calling Python).
over 3 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3 Future consideration

CPSM PROGRAM Table should provide a counter for remote program call stats.

Statistics for use of remote programs is not currently available. Such a statistic would be helpful to have and provide visibility. Suggest that the could be held in the CPSM PROGRAM Table as a new field.Or perhaps a new REMPROG table as for REMFI...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Force CICS to come up INITIAL with new Catalogs

If we have START=COLD, CICS tries to start with COLD even with new Catalog datasets. And it produces WTOR because it cant come up COLD with new Catalogs. Request is to force CICS to INITIAL start with New catalogs irrespective of START value of th...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

JSON Editor for IDz

Please add a JSON Editor (similar to the XML or SQL Editor)
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

parallel build client calls

In the case of a large number of AD projects (approx. 500), which contain a different number of mainframe artifacts (up to max. 20000), one call for the creation, import and build of each individual AD project in succession cannot be implemented o...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add database fields for DWC reporting

We are currently planning to replace a homegrown system which creates TWS reports, with DWC reporting feature. However, we are missing a mandatory field from the Current Plan z/OS DB2 archive database, which is the AD Owner ID. Our current system ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

create a component ZBNA "like" for IZPCA

The extraction of SMF, executiong of CP3K, generation and download off DAT and EDF and import in zBNA is quite annoying and takes time. If you think the input is the same SMF data that we already collect in IZPCA/IZDS family, is quite possible to ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) - does not show ENQ Count

The TYPE-2 command QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) does not provide a ENQ count, We would like the ENQ Count added when a QRY TRAN SHOW(ALL) is done.
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 Not under consideration

IMS support for OSGi Framework

IMS should support OSGi Framework within IMS Regions (applications)
about 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 2 Not under consideration

Use metadata such as DFDL to generate C structures and assembler DSECTs

With DFDL being both language agnostic and extensible through namespace based attributes and annotations, attributes and/or annotations could be added to indicate the name and optionally, data type, to use when generating such artifacts as well as...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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