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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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XML PARSE INTO structure

Exchanging XML request/reply documents between JAVA and COBOL in CICS can leverage well defined xml schemas that can be generated from XML GENERATE sample instances. XML GENERATE works well for Response structure from COBOL to JAVA, but XML PARSE ...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Add support for function inlining at OPT(0) [Metal C]

The METAL option of the xlc compiler does not support selectively inlining functions without optimizing the rest of the code We would like to be able to use a compiler attribute (such as "__always_inline__" or "_inline") to force inlining of certa...
over 4 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration

Data Set Commander Batch Utility EMPTY command additional parameter

System: Product Data Set Commander Batch Utility Author: System programmer needing work around We are in the process of sunsetting a third party vendor product in favor of IBM's Data Set Commander (DSC) Batch Utility which provides the same functi...
over 4 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Not under consideration

5698-B12 Tiv Advanced Audit DFSMShsm high events SIISStore Into the Instruction Stream

5698-B12 Tiv Advanced Audit DFSMShsm high events SIISStore Into the Instruction Stream TS003903912 We running ZOS 2.3 We running 5698-B12 Tiv Advanced Audit DFSMShsm 2.06.00 When we execute job UHSMA110 on sysplex system S2U1 we exceed the guard t...
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm 0 Not under consideration

5698-B12 Tiv Advanced Audit DFSMShsm high events SIISStore Into the Instruction Stream case TS003903912

5698-B12 Tiv Advanced Audit DFSMShsm high events SIISStore Into the Instruction Stream Numero del casoTS003903912 Descrizione We running ZOS 2.3 We running 5698-B12 Tiv Advanced Audit DFSMShsm 2.06.00 When we execute job UHSMA110 on sysplex system...
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration

Rectangle selection in IDz editor

Rectangle selection is very commonly use in ISPF editor, but in IDz editor this feature is not user friendly in both LPEX and COBOL editor. In System Z LPEX Editor:- need to select in context menu or press "Alt+R" before use, it should allow users...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

A New Feature that use the jmx interface to monitor.

System: IBM Txseries for AIX and LinuxActor: Customer need the restful interface to monitor the txseries runtime state. Now the IBM Txseries have the monitor tools which is deployed on the liberty. It is good for the new users. But if customer hav...
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

zsock ipmt enhancement

Customer is requesting the zsock ipmt display to include items like the ip addresses and port numbers for the socket plus to include the actual counts of datagrams instead of how many ‘blocks' this socket may have a datagram in.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

PARMGEN temporary generated files deletion

This RFE is to ask IBM to create a internal process in the PARMGEN, as the generated temporary files created by PARMGEN process is deleted after the end of the configuration, removing the necessity of manual deletion of files.
over 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

ZAware Alerting by Specific System

Need to be able to ignore alerting on specific systems or change alerting filters for specific systems. For example we are sending operlog to zAware from some of our test and developement systems .... but they generally have many anomalies . When ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Future consideration