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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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Distinction between COBOL used in batch or CICS/IMS

Being able to distinguish between COBOL used in batch or CICS/IMS in call graph in AD Analyse Client by different color or icon
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Retrieve DB2 columns structure from DB2 catalog

Retrieve DB2 columns structure from DB2 catalog
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Auto populate change set comments

Our shop requires comments on a change prior to delivery. If the comment could be auto populated with the impacted elements (program, design, segment, ...), it would make change set manipulation & promotions simpler.
almost 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Locked data due to failure in DB2 thread deallocation in MPP abend

On transaction abends additional failures can occur that prevent deallocation of the DB2 threads. DB2 data may remain locked until the problem is noticed and the thread is cancelled or the MPP region recycled.When IMS fails to deallocate the DB2 t...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Support for Gzip on any HTTP message

Please provide GZIP support to decompress and compress HTTP bodies.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Common Extract Format for CSD, Bundles, and BAS

Provide a common extract format for CICS resource definitions, so that we can write internal audit and resource checks against the definitions, regardless of their source. The intent is to read all resources that have been staged so that we can pr...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Optimization of IMS Connect processing with multi-segmented response messages

XCF does not send guarantee that the message segments (commit mode 1) will arrive in the same order that they were sent. For multiple output segments it is up to the XCF receiver - IMS Connect - to order the received segments and make sure they ar...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Is a defect

Both "LPAR Name" and "Host LPAR Name" show the same data.

Problem Details.Product or Service: Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS 5.3.0Component ID: 5698A5900.Operating System: z/OS.Problem titleLPAR Clusters attributes "LPAR Name" and "Host LPAR Name" show samedata.Problem descriptionFrom the OMEGAMON XE on z/0S...
almost 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DB2 transaction CONNECT_NAME and CONNECT_SYS_TYPE

Please add to all tables that store DB2 transaction information in the "DB2" & "Analytics - DB2" components, columns for connection type and connection name, populated from SMF 101 record fields QWHCATYP and QWHCCN (respectively). We have cust...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Creation of a data set growth metric suitable for identifying abnormal data set level growth.

Customer's are often challenged with identifying culprit data sets and applications when storage group growth exceeds expectations. Often subject storage groups can be several TB's large and identifying excessive growth at the dataset level cannot...
almost 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Client 0 Future consideration

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