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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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Different behaviours of IMS when a transaction is stopped.

When a transaction is stopped and a new primary message arrives, IMS returns the beautifull “DFS065 TRAN/LTERM stopped” message and does not queue the message..But when the message arrives from prog-to-prog (secondary message), the message is queu...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Provide support for PUT and GET statement

I am opening this RFE on behalf of the customer. They are requested that zUnit provide support for PUT and GET statement In essence, lift the limitation documented at this link https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSQ2R2_14.2.0/com.ibm.e...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 3 Not under consideration

Automation to import workspace settings between versions of IDz

Thru this RFE, request IBM team to consider providing an option that can help to migrate settings from past work space to the new work space. In the current world, we recommend develops to either 1) make a copy of their existing work space and use...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

When i change Super session Global Trigger to use '/' in KLSGOTO, we have problems editing JCL. See case TS003047864

We are in the process of migrating CA-TPX software to CL/SuperSession. In this process, at the client's request we are trying to maintain similarity with what we had in CA-TPX.Customer wants to use / to navigate between applications so we set the ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Request TMRA Commit Mode 1(CM1) support dedicate persistent socket.

Customer IMS is transforming from legacy SNA environment to TCPIP environment. They use both MQ and ICON for TCPIP Gateway.In new develop client programs, they prefer using TMRA for application gateway between application and IMS, and want to use ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

True length of DSECT

There should be a method (perhaps a new parameter) that would cause the "length" attribute of a DSECT to return the actual size of the dummy section, rather than simply returning a value of 1.
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

TWS IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) should also show ZIIP usage in Joblog statistics

We are using TWSz to schedule production and test jobs. TWSz includes a IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) which also writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics is CPU usage. For users to see the real usage of CPU resources the user also needs to know...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Intranet Server so where non-IBM employees can access our Documentation offline.

Currently, IBM documentation can only be accessed and downloaded internally. There is no intranet server for customers to download/configure and customers cannot access the documentation externally. The current process is to download the IBM deskt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

Missing Documentation for Installing IBM Cognos Analytics (Part of IZPCA) onto a Linux on SystemZ IFL(s).

Customer is currently attempting to utilize IZPCA on their zSystem Environment and use Cognos Analytics (part of IZPCA) installed on a zLinux IFL for available dashboards. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zp-and-ca/3.1.0?topic=reporting-implementing-co...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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