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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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Task history collection filters to reduce/control collection.

Task history collection collects records for all task in the region. We want to be able to filter on what tasks are collected. and only collect the records for tasks that pass the filters setup for the region. The filters could be, but not limited...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to locate a specific job within an application schedule without the need to manually browse

When looking for a specific job in an IWS application ID you have to manually browse through the schedule to find the job your looking for. It would be nice to be able to enter an 'F <jobName>' command in the primary command line to go strai...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Create a Data Set Commander Messages Manual

Currently if there are Data Set Commander issues, it is difficult to find the DSC messages explanation and some of the messages can not even be found in IBM site or via Google. It is important to have an up-to-date messages manual to be available.
about 2 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Future consideration

zUnit need to support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

PIF | RC to high while Insertion/Deletion of special resourse usage entrie in operation that already/not exist

While inserting a special resource usage entrie at an operation that already exist (equal SR-name) PIF will end with RC 12. The same is happening while deleting an entrie, that does not exist. Return code 12 is too high and for example an WAPL-scr...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

IDz - CARMA/Endevor type processor group description

There is usually more than one processor group for each type. In order to know which processor group to choose, the programmer needs to use the description of processor groups. Choosing the wrong processor group can cause production failures. In t...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 1 Future consideration

Support for Cobol stored procedure in IDz 16

When moving from IDz 15 with data studio plugin to IDz 16 with built-in DB2 support we are missing the support to see, execute and debug Cobol stored procedure trough IDz UI. It would be easier for the developer to execute it as it's supposed to b...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Add file access logging to SFTP server

Currently only user login activity is captured in the log under /tpfjam/ibmutil. Enhance this logging to also include file access activity at a minimum (who's doing what, when and where) as well as FTP commands if possible. Potentially include dif...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

UserBuild enabled IDEs to pass dependency set for uploading to USS

Problem: We are facing an issue where a certain type of programs dependencies are not being discovered during the user build. The program will compile just fine as long as the dependencies are available on USS. So one challenge is to get all the r...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 5 Future consideration

Correct the handling of an EQQJTARC file full (SB37 abend) to ensure that job tracking records are not lost, and jobs are not submitted twice

Currently, if the EQQJTARC file becomes full, immediately the zWS JT ARCHIVER subtask fails (message EQQZ045E SUBTASK JT LOG ARCHIVER ENDED UNEXPECTEDLY) however it is still possible to write job tracking (JT) records to the JT files which are not...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Future consideration