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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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ADDI - CICS orphaned programs to be displayed in graphs

See TS002530599 RE: PMR 92678,004,000 - BofA - Missing CICS Transactions from Graph and Selection lists
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Can Hourglass programs be defined with API(OPEN).

With the current Hourglass CICS program definitions it is possible thatthey will generate significant numbers of TCB swaps for each access toCICS timing facilities once the application programs are defined asThreadsafe ( API(OPEN) ) Find the addit...
over 5 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Provide a user ID variable support for MVS Filter strings similar to JES

Currently, our shop sets up multiple filters prefixed by RACF user ID so they are specific to the datasets they create for their own personal dataset members. The filter string for JES is already support &USERID so if they copied a filter it d...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

The limit of AUTH TOKEN (panel AOFGCPDO in SA Dialog) should be extended to 16 characters

We are implementing System Automation for z/OS under scope of GDPS/PPRC implementation project. In order to support BCPII we should to set AUTH TOKEN on panel AOFGCPDO in SA Customization Dialog. This field has 8 chars limit. This limitation is hy...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Not under consideration

refactorings in LPEX are saved automatically and the undo stack is lost

refactorings in LPEX are saved automatically and the undo stack is lost.Cobol Editor ------------ 1) add one line like DISPLAY "one of the pgm's fields". 2) Highlight a paragraph name right click -> refactor -> Rename and rename. 3) close wi...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

TAB function need to update the navigation stack.

The product involved is IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON Enhanced 3270 User Interface (TOM) and not OM XE for IMS but TOM isn't in the product list. TAB function should be re-designed to correctly update the navigation stack. In the current design, when you in...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow chmod command in S/FTP session

Requesting chmod to be added as a supported command during s/ftp session, or at least send a success return code back to the sftp client
over 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to handle Case Sensitive File Names Better

Out of the box, IBM SFG allows two files with same name to co-exist. This is not the behavior we want as we have clients sending us multiple files with same name with updated content and latest files should overwrite earlier files. To fix this, we...
over 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unnumber in IDz is very slow & blocks the UI

If a program is relatively large (in this case it's 8000 lines long), then the unnumber option in IDz takes a long time (enough time to go and pick up a coffee) & IDz displays a progress bar that precludes you from doing anything else.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Enhance ENQC support and provide greater visibility/alerting into the number of ECBs waiting on events

1) There is no means currently for an application to know how many ECBs are waiting on a resource. This means that applications have only two processing options for ENQC 1) if they get the resource or 2) if they don't get the resource. Additional ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

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