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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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FlashCopy Support

Support use of FlashCopy to make database copies/backups when the database is on a mirrored volume.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

RDz - Software Analyzer rule documentation

The following is required. 1) Rule name (already provided by IBM), 2) Rule description (already provided by IBM), 3) Why this rule is an industry best practice (IBM, please provide), 4) Coding example that triggers the rule (IBM, please provide) 5...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

CICS MQ Listener (CPIL) serialisation of In-Only messages

CICS MQ Listener enhancement to serialise (or otherwise throttle) processing of "in-only" requests. The CICS MQ Listener for web services (CPIL) currently schedules a new task immediately upon arrival of each message on a request queue. This is id...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - use value of compilation variable in text manipulation with COPY / REPLACE directives

The COPY and REPLACE compiler-directing statements should accept the value of a compilation variable in text replacement operations. This would allow the values of compilation variables to be used in the text of the program source code:- to name v...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

Enhance AFCI/AFCY to indicate holder of resource

Enhance the AFCI/AFCY transaction abends to indicate what task was holding the resource. This could be done by dumping (not abending) the holding task or at least producing a message showing what the holding task was.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Reset Statistics Partially

Currently it is only possible to reset the statistics (SMF) of all attributes (TRANSACTION, TRANCLASS, etc.) together. Granularity in statistics reset would be very useful for monitoring and metrics, and I understand that it is easily justifiable ...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

DB2 as repository will not support Analyze Server/Java source code analysis

Customer is trying to use DB2 as a repository and do Java source code analysis and this is not support by DB2... you can only do Java source code analysis with the more popular SQL server.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

show columns dssgroup in zos explorer ctg plugin on cics connection view

possibility to show a columns dssgroup in zos explorer ctg plugin on cics connection view
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 4 Future consideration

ZMOWN should track core usage and track high water marks

1Mb frame usage and 4K frame usage is not included in ZMOWN statistics. This means that ZMOWN is unable to provide a breakdown of use these critical system resources by owner name. This information would provide critical insight in trouble shootin...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Improve IMS performance for DLI calls that hit empty areas.

Improve IMS performance for DLI calls that hit empty areas. By “empty “ we intend to mean - areas that have no data populated in them since allocation , OR an area that had some data but it was deleted and is now empty. And this should target proc...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

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