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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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Improve description of the message DFS1297E

I would like to have in the IMS during display of message DFS1297, information about the transaction that is envolved with the error.
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 5 Delivered

Splunk Integration for Logging & Monitoring

Currently product logs to file system which limits company's roadmap of having end to end tracking with one unified solution that is integrating all systems to Splunk. Also the current log to file systems will become very tedious to manually brows...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Please bring back/keep CM Mouse and REXX EHLLAPI

We have dozens of tools (approx. 100) built using CM Mouse for collecting and analyzing data which we don't want to lose.
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Delivered

Provide a convenient toggle to disable/enable the Real Time Analyzer

Currently, the Real Time Analyzer can be disabled/enabled via a Preference setting. However, when disabled then enabled any open source member has to be closed and reopened for the analysis to start working again. This needs to be fixed. When re-e...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

API to set format-2 global keypointing indicator after tpf_glOpen with TPF_GLRDFST option

The current method of updating format-2 globals uses a CORHC to serialize updates, this is issued by the tpf_glOpen call when option TPF_GLRDWR is used and released by the tpf_glClose call.This CORHC window represents a sizable bottleneck requirin...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Omegamon 3270UI Support Setting Alerts & Actions as you can from TEPS

The ability from 3270UI to define within threshold situations the ablity when an alert is triggered to optionally be able to take an action as can be done with the TEPS, Thereby if we have a threshold that has been breached, we have the choice of ...
over 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

PCOM v12 support for simultaneous light pen and copy/paste operations

The ability to define the left mouse button to be used as a light pen and at the same time be able to use the left mouse button for copy/paste operations.
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Delivered

COBOL compatibility scanner for local zcomponent projects

The COBOL compatibility scanner works with USS files, remote MVS members and MVS members in subprojects. We are working with local zcomponent projects and there we would like to use this feature as well.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Manage default values being passed from z/OS Connect to IMS transactions if JSON tag is not passed in the service requests

Default values being passed from z/OS Connect to IMS transactions if JSON tag is not passed in the service requests could result in unwanted/unexpected character transformation. These transformations could result in not passing the correct data ty...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 2 Delivered

Downgrade the severity of message IBM1678I S

Using Enterprise PL/I V4.5 have found that when compiling with DEFAULT (NULLSTRPRT(STRICT), NONASSIGNABLE), that too many modules fail to compile. Downgrade the severity of message:IBM1678I S 419.0 Assignment of CHARACTER to POINTER is invalid
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered