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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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zLDA user log from JES Spool does not work when batch jobs are offloaded from JES to an archival product like "SAR".

Large MF (Enterprise) shops like CITI immediately offload batch for archival -- without this support the "user logs" from Spool to Splunk is not working for us. Our developers will not add VSAM ESDS files to batch jobs -- they will move forward a...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Add Member name information

IBM Application Discovery v5.0.4.2 onward Product is used for e.g. cross referencing usage of Programs and JCLs etc. to perform in depth analysis for change impact or in case of Operational issues. We would like to see a feature to select programs...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Empty PropertyGroup for Subprojects

When we drag and drop a PO Dataset from Remote Systems View into a zOS Sub Project, the Property Group changes to the Property Group of the Sub Project & we think that it should retain the properties of the PO-Datei and not be replaced by thos...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Avoid problems with G-Trigger and TSO-Option "Input field pad"

When you use Trigger g and have a TSO-Option "Input field pad" other than B(lank) or N(ull) your trigger will not work as the padding character is suffixed to the entered sessionid. For example /gtso will be interpreted as /gtso____ if the "Input ...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide Full BAS support within CICS Explorer

The WUI has features (i.e. BAS) that are required in the CICS Explorer to make it more robust and useful. The following are examples of those features: - RASGNDEF (Resource Assignment Definition) or facility to create, display, modify, and delete ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

IDz Code Coverage Enhancement: Number of times a statement was executed

years ago there was a tool that was very similar to RDz Code Coverage. One thing it had that would be good to add to RDz code coverage would be a count of the number of times a statement was executed. This would be helpful in fine tuning if/then/e...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from CTG, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from CTG and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from CTG Channel. Have CTG and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Coding...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Monitoring Self Describing Agent (SDA) by situations

The Self Describing Agent functionality to keep the TEMS in sync with z/OS (maintenance) is very helpful. Within the Enhanced 3270 there is a good overview of the SDA seeding process and it's status. In this overview we sometimes notice a 'error' ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Simplify CPSM WLM tracing and externalize routing decisions

In a serviceability review for CPSM, I brought this up and it was suggested that it should be submitted as an RFE instead. Can we introduce some easier way of gathering documentation when customers ask 'why is a transaction routing this way?' As i...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL - MDECK(NOCOMPILE) must produce a cross-reference COPY/BASIS report

A COBOL program compiled with the MDECK(NOCOMPILE) option for the purpose of expanding COPYBOOKs, handling text replacements, and incidentally handling conditional compilation directives, produces a listing that is limited to the list of options f...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Future consideration