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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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We are running online image copy using DFSUICC0 utilitySometimes we can have up to 50 image copy jobs running in parallelWhen too many jobs are running in parallel, we get rid of CSA because DFSUICC0 is running in 24 bit mode Would it be possible ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

Customer would need the CPU Time spent for DLI activity to be separately accounted

Customer would need to have separately accounted in TYPE56FA TLS Accounting Log Record the CPU Time spent for DL/I activity.Currently TPEXTIME field contains the cumulative CPU Time spent for the comprehensive Transaction processing.For a Customer...
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Don't report all the Storage Group and all the volumes with VTOC Index Disable

when there are some volumes under different Storage Group have VTOC Index Disable problem,it donn't provide any attribute group or attribute items that could report all the Storage Group and all the volumes through EIF.
over 7 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Product functionality 0 Functionality already exists

zDT sync with native z/OS

As zDT is improving and increasing its capabilities and functionalities we would like to have a tool to synchronize changes made in zDT (development environments) into our master/native z/OS development environment ("sync back"). As last compilati...
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 6 Not under consideration

IMS AMS - Advanced Message Service

Implement IMS functionality to support MQ Series Advanced Message Services (AMS) for transactions using the IMS-bridge connection.IMS applications are already today able explore this functionality if the design is to use MQ explicit access to the ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Add preference option to suppress or control prompting behavior for multi-selected elements

The following problem description and solution was provided the CARMA developer. ---- Start of problem description ----The way CARMA works is that when you select multiple elements, CARMA will present a dialog for each selection. The IDz Endevor I...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Add Modified user & timestamp to ACF members

It would be useful to have the modified details in the ACF members. We quite often scan the ACF members for details as it easier than using the PDB. Seeing the data the entry was modified can be useful for ruling out the member when we are investi...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

MQSeries MQMD data available using an IMS INQY call.

If possible we prefer to connect our MQ Series clients using OTMA, since this solution is more scalable. To minimize allocation of IMS resources, we have made it possible to run these applications in an asyncronous way. Our challenge is to be able...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

How many Connection Managers were waiting for a worker in interval.

SMF111 Contains current number of connection managers waiting for a worker thread to become available (CM_CWAITING). But no information on Interval: - Total number of connection managers waiting - Peak number of connection managers waiting.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Eliminate BMP checkpoint messages from an archive sysprint

Right now we are trying to eliminate all of our USERMODS in order to be in a more IBM standard way. We almost achivied this task but one of our USERMODS can not be eliminate. The USERMOD is the MI00012. This USERMOD gives you the option to skip wr...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration