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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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Mouse functionality within Host Connection Emulator

Paired with the SWAPBAR function of ISPF, the ability to utilize the mouse to double click these tabs ini Host Connection Emulator is extremely beneficial.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Omegamon for z/OS agent for JES

Provide the ability to monitor the JES environment, whether it be JES2 or JES3
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow maintenance of SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3

The SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3 records user logon/logoff times. This table grows and grows as users are added and deleted. There is no management of the table. I would be good if either the record for a user was deleted when other tables related to a ...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

ADDI - Enable filtering of TWS applications during import

During import of TWS Applications in AD via AD Connect it is not possible to filter the import. Only the whole TWS Database can be imported for each project. So all irrelevant TWS Applications for a project are imported as well. We want to be able...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Auto Refresh for anything that is manually changed

Please refer to the delivered description of RFE ID 80759: Hyperlinked properties when updated should auto refresh automatically in DWC. If a job is reset manually, it would be nice if DWC auto refreshes the page immediately. This would be applica...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Service required rebuild of Local and Global Catalogs does not force INITIAL start

On occasions, changes to CICS product code by PTFs requires the CICS Global and Local Catalogs to be redefined - an example of the wording il the PTF HOLD data is: "The Global and Local Catalogs will need to be deleted, redefined and initialized t...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

UCD passticket support for CICS

The CICS TS plugin for UCD should support usage of pass tickets for all steps, such as CICS PIPELINE SCAN.
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Not under consideration

JES Purge via RDz

We are unable to purge a job from JES via RDz. When we attempt to purge a job, the below message is shown in the JMON log:ACF04056 ACCESS TO RESOURCE MVS.MCSOPER.JMON TYPE ROPR BY TSO91DU NOT AUTHORIZED Our MVS Operations team considers this acces...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Exit issuing WTO. Add exit or message to existing sense table operation

Sometimes CICS users get hung up and results in sense code 0805000B. WTO generation is for alerts To be sent
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

automount aws files on OS request

Implement an automatic mount function of aws tapes on awstape device driver. it should be possible to feed the virtual tape drive with scratch tapes without physical awsmount intervention.
over 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration