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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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AD support data driven application

The core banking application is data-driven, which program execution flow is controlled dynamically by the configuration data store in DB2 table. Now AD static code scan facility can not support such use case.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

not to flag ASRA and take SVC dump when ON-unit is used to handle error condition in PL/1 program

Client uses ON-unit to handle error condition in their PL/1 CICS program like this:ON FIXEDOVERFLOW BEGIN; FIXED_OUT = 999999999999999; GO TO XX999RF_EXIT; END; CICS should not flag ASRA in the transaction and take SVC dump if user chooses to use ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to provide output area for DFSGVRM call

The DFSGVRM macro gives us a way to get the real IMS level. We are having issues with the FUNC=REL (addressability; our code and way it's written) using MVS STORAGE macro and having inline DC statements. DFSGVRM FUNC=CALL requires caller to alloca...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Data Stream for SMF249 from DVM

The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

SMU List job status widget

A widget that enables us to easily view and filter IZWS jobs and jobstreams as a list
over 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

ZD&T should allow to keep the extracted files on local or NAS drive

ZD&T IDE tool set provide option to copy files in FTP storage but In our case we just copy the files in to different drive on the same server. If you could include the capabilities to copy to different local drive /NAS drive that would help us.
over 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

TS Queue - Logstash offload

In PL/1 we have the problem, that people make "put skip list/data)" and everything is spaming the CEEMSG. Now we want to introduce a PL/1 subroutine equal to log4j, Moving all the output to a TS-QUEUE. It would be great to have the possibility to ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Including program name and other information in the StartStop message information for Debug Tool for z/OS

As the developers adopt Debug Tool as their development tool for debugging applications and collecting code coverage information, it is important to have the accounting information about who is using the tool, as well as which programs they are wo...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IMS auto-resume connection at warm start

- new feature:IMS automatically reconnects an IMS-DB2 connection regardless of the latest connection status at IMS shutdown, if introdiced and specified a new parameter like "FORCERECONNECT=YES".- present work:If IMS-DB2 connection was not active ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Display removed DB, after cmd CHANGE.SUBSYS ABNORMAL

1:display removed DB after enter CHANGE.SUBSYS ABNORMAL cmd. 2:display warning msg after CHANGE.SUBSYS NORMAL cmd for removed DB.3:display warning msg after LIST.SUB cmd for removed DB.
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

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