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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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ANALYTIC Report Set to include an ALERT that suppresses entries with zero activity

The supplied ANALYTIC ReportSet for Splunk includes all definitions for 17 different statistics records, generating over a million splunk records each day. Many of the records are for unused entries that we would like suppressed. Can you supply a ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

PDS member last modified date should in Show in table view

TS014586742 PDS member : last modified date should in Show in table view . once stats updated at ISPF side same is visible at IDZ side. However, if element do not have ant timestamp which mean empty if directly updated at IDZ side then timestamp i...
10 months ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 2 Delivered

Notify and TSO SEND aus JCLs

The NOTIFY Parameter in the Job Card and a TSO Send Command have no effect when using the RDz. The messages are send to the users TSO session. These messages should be send to the RDz session of the user.
about 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 10 Delivered

For new data/time input data fields we would like the data to be persistent

Now that PTF's UI79367/8/9 are applied -PH42125: CICS CONFIGURATION MANAGER ENHANCED TO COLLECT & PASS ADDITIONALINFORMATION FOR PROCESSING BY CHANGE PACKAGE EXIT PROGRAM - we would like the data saved and presented back to the CM panels. The ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Add the hability to parse a json file containing only an array with the JSON PARSE statement

In order to be able to process a REST/json API response, we need to be able to parse a json file containing only an array, beggining with '[' and ending with ']'. Wich is a valid json object. We had opened the support case TS004314426 on this matt...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Ignore case remain inactive with 'Compare with' for programs that have different sequence number AND case on the same line

When we compare programs, the button 'Ignore Case' in the toolbar has no effect in Compare editor if there are both different sequence number AND different case existing in a same line.In this case, the line displays a difference that should be el...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 6 Delivered

FA IDz client to access saved report from history file

Hello, The FA ISPF interface allows a user to select/view the saved report from the history file. However, the IDz plugin does not have the ability to read/access/present this data and must drive a reanalysis of the fault in order to produce a rep...
over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Open a new zOS Unix shell on double-click action.

The z/OS UNIX Shell in the Remote Systems View can only be launched by selecting the submenu item "Launch Shell". For better use it would be adventagious if this could be accomplished with a simple double click.
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 2 Delivered

Double Click of Dataset in JCL

Within JCL, if I double-click on a dataset, only the qualifier I happen to click on is highlighted. This is due to the period being a delimiter.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

EXCI should support CHANNEL and CONTAINER

Currently, EXCI only supports COMMAREA. This limits applications to 32kB of data. CHANNEL /CONTAINER allow to use more than this limit and help to structure the data.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 14 Delivered