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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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MQ Trace needs some improvements for better Customer support

During an issue where we needed to provide IBM with MQ traces we had a difficult time getting these. Having to take the RTA and mount on a linux system doesn't work for us, so we had to copy the VTS RTA tape to a VTAPE volume and to use on Linux i...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

VSAM function in IBM File Manager

System: Product File Manager form zOS Description: We would like to see an enhancement to the IBM File Manager VSAM/DISK panels. We would like to see more information on VSAM datasets, and specifically the percent utilized amounts that IBM uses fo...
almost 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

CTCz Timestamp data on Status panel

On "Cloud Dataset Display" panel (Panel#CUZ$CDSN), Timestamp data is from UTC.Would you change this timestamp data as the local time?
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

job names at the top of installation paragraphs in the program directory

improve the useability of the program directory by putting jobnames at the top of each section of the program directory's installation chapter.
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

enable "FIND" in IMS IVPs

Enable the "FIND" function in the IMS IVPs for variable names and contents, job and step names
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Collapse the File Tailoring and Execution phases to a single phase in the IMS IVPs

Collapse the File Tailoring and Execution phases to a single phase in the IMS IVPs to modify the JCL as needed and then to submit it before moving on to the next step.
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Allow file tailoring via batch

Allow the file tailoring step to be executed via a batch job instead of requiring an interactive TSO session.
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

IVPs should not update SDFSRESL

The IVPs for IMS should be entirely contained within datasets allocated for the IVPs. However, they currently modify some datasets, like SDFSRESL..
almost 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Better Support of WMQ-Applications

Currently Fault Analyzer does not properly recognize that an abending Batch-Job or CICS transaction is connected to Websphere MQ. In these cases FA does not show any information related to MQ and last MQ-API calls.This flaw seems to arise when the...
almost 5 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow IPCS VERBX commands in SDUMP reviews

With some of the other fault analysis tools, system dumps can be futher reviewed using the same VERBX commands as can be done in IPCS. This allows for deeper manual investigation of a system dump
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

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