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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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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

To allow Windows Authentication in ADDI for SQL server

Hello Team, We are using Windows account to login into our servers and our SQL server for AD resides in different windows server.So to communicate between different application server we use windows authentication (which is mixed authentication mo...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 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

Maintain good compression ratio for insert after load in BLU automatcially without unload and reload

We usually insert data to the same table daily and may be housekeep data from the table daily after retention period.Update will be less frequent but we found that update in column-organized table takes very long time due to the insert+delete oper...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

ZUDFM entry do display program/relation...

Our RECOUP procedure includes a "ZRBKD DISP ALL" entry to have a view of our descriptors in the TPF log, but today most of our databases use DBDEF instead of RECOUP descriptor. We would appreciate an entry like "ZUDFM DEF REC" which combines ZUDFM...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Extend the Impact Report to allow starting from a 'File'

The impact report starting from the variable used in a READ statement does not show any link to the variable associated with the file in FILE SECTION. The impact report contains only direct data transfers between variables.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 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 ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Clean up after search

After doing a search, when deleting results from the "Search" view, the last search result is always left behind
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Ability to copy and paste a path into the edit source lookup

Edit source lookup for remote folder is a "graphical interface" (i.e. a browse tree) at the moment... want a way to enter a remote folder as a path (i.e. need a text field)
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Provide ISPF option to display active RULEDEFS with line match data for debug

Advanced Allocation Management provides an ISPF option to display the contents of the current RULEDEFS member. Since the product RULEDEFS can be dynamically refreshed it would also be good to be able to display the current actual rule definitions ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration