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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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IMS segments should allow setting default values and autogenerated sequence numbers

It would be great if IMS had the option of defining segments with auto-generated values, whether they are defaults or incremental numbers, like identities.
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Sort jobs by start time order in Plan

Our users reported that the jobs in Plan are not sorted in start time order. Below is the output of jobstream in conman. And please see the screenshot that the jobs are sorted by start time. May I know if it is possible to amend the conman output ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Method to get the STATSAPI (RestrictedTCPHandler) port from CICS TG using an external process

We would like to programatically discover the STATSAPI port numbers assigned to CICS Transaction Gateway regions.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Single view for all packages(CM) across all sysplexes

Hi,We can only see all the CICS CM packages that are belongs to a single sysplex. But if we have multiple sysplex environments, it become very difficult to go to each sysplex and check for the CICS CM Package to install every day. This gets compli...
over 7 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

IDz client 15.0.1 has error getting dbg profiles from EQAPROF server

There is a defect in the IDz 15.0.1.0 client, when accessing the debug profile service. Specifically, I get the following error in my 15.0.1.0 client .log file (in the metadata directory of my workspace):!MESSAGE An internal error occurred during:...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

HATS Connection terminatio

HATS Connection Termination feature request
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

Additional I or W type message for questionable code

I've recently been asked to look at code that relies on compiler dependent initialisation of FIXED DEC variables. The code works from (at least) OS PL/I (V2.3.0) all the way up to EPLI V4R5M0, the IBM Innovation Center - Dallas system hasn't yet i...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Add support for WAS 9.0

Was 9.9 GA was June 2016 but is not yet available.
over 7 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

RDz Content Assist for SQL EXEC statements does not provide correct information.

The RDz Content Assit for DB2 is working fine for an EXEC SQL SELECT and in some cases( like EXEC SQL DECLARE or EXEC SQL INSERT) the Content Assist for DB2 does not work properly.. The RDz Content Assist for DB2 should not be reserved to simple S...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enable CTC to leverage TCT for network transfers

Where possible it would be good if CTC could leverage TCT as it network transfer mechanism which would effectively enable serverless data movement and reduce overall resource consumption.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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