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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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Need to increase the size of the formatted columns from the existing limit of 6 to something much greater such as 15 or user defined

Today when create a report for things such as TOTAL DL/I calls over a several hour period the column is returned in scientific format if the return value exceeds 6 digits.For example, returned as: 4.4228E+08. This makes reading the report via diff...
11 days ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

We need the record definition and the table for smf type 87.

We need SMF TYPE 87 record data to keep a track on conversion from RESERVE to GLOBAL ENQ. This is a key metrics and we would like this to be the part of healthcheck dashboard. This is also recommended by IBM and we need this to be part of IzPCA
11 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Enterprise COBOL z/OS: Implement TYPEDEF and TYPE

I would like to see TYPEDEF and TYPE implemented in Enterprise COBOL on z/OS similar to how it is implemented in Enterprise COBOL x86 and defined in the COBOL ISO standard. TYPEDEF and TYPE provided additional tools for writing structured COBOL an...
11 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Support for User-defined functions in programs utilizing SQL

At the moment it is not possible to compile a COBOL module using "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" and EXEC SQL. This severely limits the usability of "user-defined functions"/"function prototypes" in system which uses SQL/DB2 as the ...
12 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

To enhance the IBM IMS Fast Path Solution Pack FPA RELOAD and INITIALIZE functions

To enhance the IBM IMS Fast Path Solution Pack FPA RELOAD and INITIALIZE functions, we propose the following enhancements: Automated ADS Allocation Size Calculation: Implement a mechanism to automatically calculate the optimal ADS allocation size ...
12 days ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / Fast Path Advanced Tools 0 Submitted

Operational CPU and Sysplex should be selectable

Currently when Retrieving Operational for a new project the CPU Sysplex data is automatically downloaded, it would be nice if this was added to the Build Configuration as an option in case it needs to be refreshed or if we do not want that informa...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Filtering Operational Information

The Operational information for a large enterprise environment is quite large and much of the data it contains is not relevant from an application level. e.g. The DB2 data tries to download the entire DB2 catalogue which contains not only APPL rel...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Operational Information sharing

The collecting of Operational Information in the Build Configuration is on Project Level yet the information gathered is on zOS Connection. This means if we have 280+ projects per environment (and we do), we need to collect the Operational Informa...
12 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Add collection for SMF88 subclass 1 and 11.

Define a new tables that will maintain SMF 88 subtype 1,11 for logstream performance.
12 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Move the IMS structures above the bar, 64-bit memory

As machines get bigger and faster, they process more IMS transactions per second and we need more storage to process this. We have run out of 31-bit storage. We'd like to move the IMS structures above the bar, 64-bit memory.
25 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

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