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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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Display DS8K port speeds in MEGATON XE For Storage

OMEGAMON XE For Storage should display configured port speeds as part of the information provided in the TotalStorage support for DS8K. When trying to determine cause and resolution for performance issues it would be good for clients to be able to...
about 8 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Add a CICS TS Monitoring option to collect enqueue resource contention data

CICS TS only provides monitoring data for ENQDELAY time which is not sufficient for users that need to know the name, length, owner and waiter for specific enqueue resources.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Fault Analyzer Should Accept Assembler Side Files not in ADATA format

Fault Analyzer currently cannot accept listings for Assembler programs were compiled in Endevor using ‘NOADATA' option. We have over 6000 programs compiled this way that can be accepted into other Fault Analysis tools.
about 8 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Default Message Length to Blank for File Manager MQ Edit

When inserting a message on a queue in file Manager, the insert message length defaults the length of the queue. This length is often very large and if left as defaulted actually results in a Virtual Memory Storage error when trying to insert. We ...
about 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[RPP] Is there a way to block the data entry on the right column in RPP

Hi, Is there a way to block the data entry on the right column in RPP ? Regards, Christophe
about 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

CTG Registered Stakeholder Identifier

We would like to register ASG Technologies for a CTG Stakeholder Identifier for the letter "T". We plan to take advantage of the new CTG 9.3 Selective Tracking Token Data.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

IPtrace output.

Customer is requesting an option when post processing IPtrace to include both the EBCDIC and ASCII side by side on the same report. Today it lets them request either EBCDIC or ASCII
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Present a more meaningful message when Remote Syntax Check is called with "CTRL+ALT+R" on sequential dataset COBOL sources.

Present the IDz user a more meaningful profesional message when calling Remote Syntax Check with shortcut "CTRL+ALT+R" on sequential dataset COBOL sources. Currently IDz users receive an unexpected and unclear technical exception error dialog when...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Allow to execute some code upon dll load

I have a dll requiring some code to be executed once at dll load time.Some reserved variables must be initialized (but not possible with a simple INIT clause) and some imported variables (from another dll) must be accessed at that time.
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

OSAM Encryption for 4K or smaller blocksizes

OSAM Encryption (VSAM linear data set) currently has a minimum blocksize of 4K which would inhibit our ability to implement pervasive encryption. A large proportion of our databases have blocksizes smaller than 4K and more are moving in that direc...
about 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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