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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 an option for member sort to prevent misplacement due to specific code page

In order to prevent misplacements in the list of members as displayed by RDz due to the use of a specific code page (*),we need an option in RDz for member sort: 1 - Use windows default 2 - Use alphabetic sort This option could be placed under "Re...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

zUnit Assertion to include also less than, greater than

It would be better if the Assertion logic also include the Greater than (>) and Less than (<) comparison.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Prevent RCL step restart JCLI Error under JES3

During step restart under IZWS Restart & Cleanup under JES3, the C/I component performs a catalog look-up on all the data sets of the job, not just starting from the restart step. The restart fails with a JCLERR because of the following JES3 C...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

URIMAP and restfull api

When running RESTFUL API it will be nice if it is possible to run different tran names for the same URI based on the method GET/POST and so onso some users are only able to see datat but not update them we are using liberty in CICS
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to proc...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Comment -- colors

In the PDP Editor, I would like to be able to configure the color of DB2 comments. In the attached image, you'll see the DB2 comments in red boxes. They look like all of the other code in working storage. Can -- be recognized and highlighted?
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Future consideration

allow Filter concatenation with AND and OR logical operations

allow advanced filtering by concatenation of filters using AND and OR logical operators
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

implement RTA in CICS Explorer

implement the definition of RTA events in CICS Explorer
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Annotate ADDI Graphs

Provide the ability to annotate a chart - especially a CA7 Scheduler graph - with lines and comments.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale settings for AIX to minimize characters lost in translation to DB2 LUW

Missing CCSID 850/858 locale settings for AIX to minimize characters lost in translation to DB2 LUW
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration