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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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To display properties of TAPE dataset

Unable to see properties for tape dataset
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Option to send LE RPTSTG data to SMF instead of CESE TDQ

The RPTSTG option of transaction CLER routes a large report to the CESE TDQ for each task/enclave. This data is hard to manage in its current text format. We would prefer that this data be routed instead to an SMF record, so that the data can be m...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

SHUTDOWN needs more selections than just NORM, IMMED and FORCE

Require the ability to have different defined SHUTINIT, SHUTNORM, SHUTIMMED and SHUTFORCE types similar that of STARTUP function. To permit different types of NORMAL shutdown commands.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Include execution times for Code Coverage reports

In the Code Coverage result we can see the percentage of execution coverage for each routine, and we request to show the time spent to execute the routines.
over 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enhance JVM Keystore resiliency if bad certificate encountered

Today, a JVM that utilizes SSL will earmark a keystore/keyring as invalid if any certificate within the keystore/keyring is missing a private key, regardless of it other certificates are valid and the problematic certificate is not even used withi...
over 8 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Utilize CICSPlex System Manager WLM for Dynamic Server Selection

Allow CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) to route requests directly to CICS Application Owning Regions (AORs) per advice from CICSPlex SM (CPSM), thus avoiding the need for a (routing) Terminal Owning Region (TOR).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

AAO _WAIT required for AOCQRES and INGDATA commands

Currently the customer has to specify a WAIT=xxx for every occurrence of INGDATA and AOCQRES that they invoke. Other commands like INGEVENT and INGLIST have an AAO called INGLIST_WAIT and INGEVENT_WAIT to set a default value.
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Update Deployment Wizard to allow specification of Web Start desktop icon

Enhance the Deployment Wizard to allow specifying a user defined icon to be specified when generating a Web Start client. The Deployment Wizard should include a panel that allows the user to select an alternative icon to be used for the desktop sh...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

DFHSO0106 code X'0C11' BIND_ERROR -1,1115,744C7247

Receiving the following message after upgrading zos from 1.13 to 2.1DFHSO0106 A UNIX System Services Assembler Callable Service error (code X'0C11') has occurred in module DFHSOLS. The trace shows many BIND_ERRORs with RETURN_CODE(1115) REASON_COD...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

RFE PARMGEN – Linklist library

To be possible PARMGEN allocate and populate a new library for using (concatenated) in LNKLST (z/OS parmlib). Almost of the customers refuse to use RKANMOD because the number of members and create a new LOADLIB and copy de necessary modules for us...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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