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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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Opportunity to sort IBM HourGlass: Controls Overview

Sometimes we have more than 1000 entries in the Controls Overview.To better manage this we want to have the opportunity to sort the entries after a column (for example (User-ID).
about 10 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Numbers Cut and Paste from HOD into excel cannot be tabulated

HOD takes the negative number from HOD and pastes it as is into excel. The users have set up processes for copying and tabulating numbers pasted in excel based on Rumba behavior. Rumba changes the position of the - (negative sign) to prefix the nu...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Not under consideration

PROC USAGE WILL NOT CONSIDER A PROC THAT DOES NOT HAVE AT LEAST ONE DDNAME OVERRIDE

Customer utilizes a PROC that is invoked without needing to add a DDNAME override. Customer wants to see that this PROC is returned in the PROC USAGE facility in analyze client. The PROC name is missing. The same PROC does appear in the job flow d...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Is a defect

Add FIX capability to SYS1 catalog compare in Adv Catlg Mgr (as previously requested in RFE34731)

I had submitted RFE34731 for Adv Catalog Mgnt for zOS 2.4 to add the capability to compare SYS1 datasets in different master catalogs and provide the fixes to sink up the missing datasets. Just like the alias compare does now. I receive notificati...
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable multiple EGL default target system build descriptors

In the EGL file Properties, in the group EGL Default Build Descriptors, allow multiple build descriptors in the settings Target system build descriptors, when selecting Specify default build descriptor values for this resource.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Planned for future release

CMAS connectivity timer

The 5-minute CMAS timer used when connecting multiple CMASes in a SYSPLEX should should be made tunable.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

zAppBuild should provide a way for deleting the build datasets and the collections which are no longer needed

DBB does not have API to delete datasets, but the JZOS API has. From Joseph Taffe-Atkins5/UK/IBM I believe this is worth an enhancement request in zAppBuild to provide a way for deleting the build datasets and the collections which are no longer n...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS to cut SMF recs using MNFREQ on open TCB's as well as QR

We use MNFREQ=100 to force SMF 110's to be cut for long running tasks. But if the task is sitting on an MQGETWAIT on an OPEN TCB, we get nothing. It only works when the task is on the QR TCB.Please enhance CICS to allow cutting 110's from an OPEN ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Prevent a task from coming up in another system until it is completely down in another system.

This request is to prevent one of the applications that we are running from unecessary being flagged as broken by allowing SERIAL Move Mode specification in a SERVER group. SA automatically starts a member of a SERVER group in another system when ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

IMS output message flood control

IMS has already a flood control for input messages. This covers the most common cases of message flooding in IMS. Even if mass insertion of output messages is very unusual, it is as ciritical to the system stability as mass insertion of input mess...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 2 Not under consideration

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