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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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z/TPF SNAP dumps - option to SERRC

We propose adding code to IBM segments that contain SNAP dump code to have an option to take a SERRC instead. The segment can interrogate a new Format-2 Global. If the IBM segment name is found in the global, take a SERRC instead of a SNAP dump. I...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance Advanced Audit history database to support detail data

The Advanced Audit product supports a history database which allows the storage administrator to view trends over time based on audit results. Currently the data stored in the history database consists of error type and counts only. To enhance usa...
about 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration

Requirement for CICS TS 5.1 compatability with z/OS 1.12

CICS TS 5.1 has recently been announced and we need to be able to install and execute this CICS release on z/OS 1.12 in order to be able to move to this release. We are currently running CICS TS 3.2 and we have investigated moving to z/OS 1.3 firs...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

Extending Java support on Linux on z (or other platforms)

Is there any plan in the roadmap to extend Java support on Linux on z (or other platforms)?
about 4 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RDz - RSEG9999 'Missing element for setLast...' message when insufficient disk space

improve the error message on the RSEG9999 pop-up when the "paste" of a file (to network drive) fails because of insufficient disk space
about 12 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Not under consideration

RTL support for RUI widgets

The alignment property of the data grid widget is not working,It always keeps the data left aligned. In the DataGrid widget code (com.ibm.egl.rui.4.3.1/EGLSource/com.ibm.egl.rui.widgets/DataGrid.egl) at line 280columnClass[column] = "EglRuiDataGri...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Move default OPEN option to the z/OS File System Mapping view level

I would like to see the setting of the default option when opening a member in a PDS to ?Browse?, ?View? or ?edit? moved from the Preferences menu and (perhaps) placed on the z/OS File System Mapping. As a developer, I would like better control ov...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to create SAR/RAR files directly within RDz UI

Customer is requesting the possibility to create SAR/RAR files directly from RDz UI so that they do not need to use the IBM z/OS Connect EE API editor which requires a batch job submission.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Provide an Enterprise PL/I function to get the current call stack level.

Provide an Enterprise PL/I function to get the current call stack level. Example: Main calls subroutine A, A calls subroutine B: at that point the call stack level is 3 (assuming Main starts at 1). CALL A; A: PROC; CALL B;END A; B: PROC; PUT SKIP ...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Integration of operational data from Production

RFE opened on behalf of BNPP. BNPP wants the AD model to be enriched with production data coming from the "Execution" and "Production Monitoring" standpoint, especially extracted from TADz and SMF. BNPP wishes to use native AD mechanisms to exploi...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration