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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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Provide SMF Templates - allow SMF record selection

Opened on behalf of IBM Customer. File Manger to provide SMF Templates and allow the customer to use the templates to select specific records from SMF datasets
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Enhance EP support to include "implicitly referenced" API fields as well as API calls performed by mirror program

Current EP behavior:1. Currently, the Event Processing (EP) actual event supported fields are only those fields which have explicitly referenced in the CICS API call.Other API data which are not part of the API call are not available to the EP Ada...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

File synthesis result of a comparison of file

Result summary of the comparison of two files indicate at the copy number and the percentage differences by data
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

cpsm mas agent tasks should syncpoint occasionally

Long-running MAS agent tasks should issue occasional syncpoints, Please refer to PMR for specific problem, but anytime there is a possibility of GLUEs or URMs running under CICS internal long-running tasks, those tasks should have programmed syncp...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DT should better support a global preference (GBLPREF)-File with RDz

When you use full-screen interface a GBLPREF-file is usual and helpful to provide the users customized setup for DT, e.g. setting keys similar like a competing debugger to easily switch. This way a parallel used RDZ / Eclipse debugging will have a...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

when compare is used, the print function is not available in v8.0.3

After creating a compare, the print function is not available in v8.0.3. I searched the RDz discussion forum on IBM's site and did not find anything. Ideally, we'd like a way to print the compare results for documentation. It would also be nice if...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Add user profile global parameter for filtering

enhancement to RDz to allow for the creation of a global parameter to the store RACF ID of the user in a profile that can then be changed in one place as opposed to forcing the user to go to each filter when they are using a template workspace tha...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

RDz COBOL Editor - column restricted search

COBOL Editor should provide the similar functionality of "Column Restricted" searching as the same as LPEX Editor.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

custermize which resource is collected in statistics

Customer can customize which resource is collected in statistics. eg, only collect dispatch in statistics.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve performance of RECSTATS in VIEW mode

Improve record processing time and memory usage of RECSTATS in FM VIEW mode.
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration