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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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Add a Descriptor and/or Route Code to DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE like in PL/I to do WTO (ASM)

Today, the DISPLAY UPON CONSOLE statement has a default Desciptor Code of 2 and a Route Code of 3. For automated log processing, it is important to be able to specify these codes. The only way today is to call an Assembler program performing WTO. ...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add the ability to connect via passticket with "Remote Connection Emulator" (RCE) from IBM Developper for z/OS 16*

Currently, users can connect to IDz thru RACF passticket but must use a user/password to connect to HCE, and now RCE. Would it be possible to find a method or at least reuse the passticket connection set up on IDz to automatically connect to the h...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 2 Not under consideration

Include 45xx statistics records in the calculation of Average Checkpoint Duration, Average Checkpoint Frequency, and CPLOG count to the Checkpoint Summary portion of the Checkpoint Report.

IMS writes statistics records (45xx) at every checkpoint just before the checkpoint records (40xx). I would like to see something like this: Start 12Sep2024 00:00:37:75 IMS Performance Analyzer End 12Sep2024 00:01:53:25 Page 1 Checkpoint Summary ...
about 2 months ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Support of SMF105 GDPS Global Mirror

I see that PH57707 has been created for support of SMF105 in TDS, would it be possible to do the same for CDP (HBORS105/HBOUS105) and also create a datastream for it.
8 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

Refactoring for PLi modules

Right now IDz has functionality to identify unused variable in cobol modules. we need similar future for PLi modules as well. We have 1000s of PLi modules. we need similar functionalities like cobol modules
5 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 1 Future consideration

Allow for rebalance of CICS regions connected to Couriers after restart.

Once a CICS region is connected to a particular courier in the base component, it will continue to connect to the same courier across restarts of the base component. Please allow for the (optional?) redistribution of the connections, balanced acro...
5 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Upgrade Kafka Client

The Kafka broker version we use is well in advance in compare to the Kafka Client 2.8.1. It produces unnecessary warnings on z/TPF. Moreover we would like to be proactive and be open to new features as well as to keep security enhancements u...
about 2 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

AD - Analyze client Legend icon shall appear in the menu bar next to other icons, but not under expandable menu

On AD Analyze client v611 we found that Legend icon is not visible any longer next to other icons (on this small menu bar), but instead it is hidden under pop-up menu. This is not very convenient, as when needed to use this Legend icon feature, de...
about 2 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Alert message when a WS has reached the max of parallels servers coded

We are often contacted to analyze why jobs have been late. We have no way to verify if the root cause is a lake of parallels servers. In case of a jobs waits for parallels servers available, it would be nice to have a message in the log, or if it'...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add new system rule 'monitor DSA/EDSA'

Currently, monitoring of DSA/EDSA in rule of policy is done at task level (task rule) I would be interesting to have same monitoring at region level (system rule)
6 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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