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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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Command to stop IMS debug sub-regions

We are using IBM Debug Tool with the feature "private message regions". Unfortunately, some users forget to stop their private message region at the end of their debug session and it can lead to problems for our system teams when they need to shut...
almost 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Would like an option in option 5.3 ( EQQSOPFP ) to display all NOP'ed jobs

Would like an option in option 5.3 ( EQQSOPFP ) to display all NOP'ed jobs
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

make userdefined extensions for using zUnit available thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

TS010125970 Allow customization of Wazi Image Builder

Hi, On all our z/OS Sysplexes , we have a shared read-only root filesystem, as recommended by IBM for better performance and reliability. Wazi image builder requires a Jar file wibMainframeSFTP.jar to be copied to /usr/lpp/IBM/wib - a location tha...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

ADDI - Improve Import IWS Applications with AD Connect

In our test-environment we are currently testing the import of TWS applications into our projects. The performance of this import is very poor. After runstats etc. we see that one query stands out in “Average getpages” (216779,00). Just like the “...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer support for additional NEWCOPY options under 'Program Operations View'

We need below additional NEWCOPY options added under Program Operations View:1. Last NewCopy Time 2. NEWCOPY Success Count 3. NEWCOPY Fail Count
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Future consideration

Time-based batch collect commit frequency

I would like to request an upper limit on the amount of (wall-clock/elapsed) time between commits when using the batch collector. Current commit frequency options are inadequate to prevent uncommitted UR problems, if a batch job is CPU-delayed, an...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Planned for future release

Send history of all completed TX tasks to Tivoli Monitoring with detailed task information as seen on the MONQ records

Currently Tivoli Monitoring for TX produces task history records only for those tasks which happen to be active precisely on the expiration of monitoring interval. Thus only a small fraction of all tasks. We would like to see all completed tasks i...
over 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Adding a little bit of TWS to the JCL editor

TWS makes small changes to the JCL. These changes result in errors and warnings marked by the JCL editor within RDz. That way all of our JCLs are wrong and it is very easy to miss real errors in a JCL. Please add TWS variables to the syntax check ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

CICS Program Newcopy or Phasein to show both current and new lengths (and PHASEIN RES>0)

CICS Program Newcopy or Phasein to show both current and new lengths. Our Code Asset Management (CAM) and Audit department uses the old and new program lengths for comparison of migrated code lengths. If Newcopy or Phasein sucessful; echo the leng...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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