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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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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 ...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

JSON support in EGL generated COBOL for System i

We know that RBD 9.6 has support for Json , but its not available for Cobol generation on System i (as400)
about 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Planned for future release

Artificial intellegence software manufacturing

Artificial intelligence application for DevOps entire software development evaluation ,software testing etc provide patent right and royalty reward (provide 50% of profit only in my name) only in my name and donot include any external elements in ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

For z/VM Service downloads via browser function, provide a text file containing all generated download links for copy/paste into GETSHOPZ tool

To use the GETSHOPZ tool in z/VM for downloading/unpacking service files from ShopzSeries, it is necessary to copy and paste the download link for each file into the GETSHOPZ tool. To facilitate ease of use for this tool, it would be helpful to pl...
over 1 year ago in IBM Shopz 0 Submitted

enable capture when engine tasks are down for any reason

Currently if an engine task is taken down such as for product maintenance, i.e. the SMF engine, any records cut in the period it is down are lost and not streamed to the target. This is obviously an unacceptable loss of data in the real time monit...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

DTCN FORCE for choice of entries

we need a less restrictive DTCN FORCE command to make sure the user does not create a generic profile we just need a program name or a terminal , or a user id . So instead of DTCN FORCE PROG requiring always a program name we need something more r...
about 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADDI: Recognition of an IMS database call that takes place in a home-grown interface

1. Our dynamic resolution algorithm does not support Pointers, therefore calls like the one below are not resolved:CALL CBLTDLI-ProcPointer USING Dummy-P03Dummy-P04Dummy-P05Dummy-P062. Our dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO E...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 Unit Tests

We want to unit test PL/1 moduls (also internal procedures). This would be possible by adding additional code to a module with a generator I wrote. The problem by doing this is that the source code tested would be not the same than the one deploye...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

z/VM Operations Manager pre-built solutions

Customer gave a product feedback that everything needs to be manually implemented on z/VM ops Manager and no built in templates available for deploying product solutions easily.
over 1 year ago in Operations Manager for z/VM 1 Not under consideration

SMU - add RESET (Autodown) option in Rest API

We would like to have a RESET option in the SA Rest API, as is in SMU. This RESET then resets an application to the correct state, as you do in SA with AUTODOWN.For example, if an application is STOPPED and you want it to return to the correct state.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration