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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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Open-source components support

Open-source components support
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Better support of ACMQ Interface in RDz CARMA Endevor integration

Currently the only available CARMA interface with ACMQ is "Show Dependencies", but it is not user friendly and not provide sufficient function compare with ISPF interface. We will need the followings: 1. It should be able to trigger via CARMA repo...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

File Manager Editor, display characters using selected encoding in the text representation

Using File Manager Editor, display content of the text representation using IBM-277 encoding.
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Is a defect

Automatic Platform MRO Connections

If you create a Platform in the new Cloud Environment and I add Cics Regions to the Platform, I have to connect every Region by an MRO Connection. This is not very useful, as by connecting the a region to a platform I already know for sure this re...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

HourGlass MVS load

Contrary to IBM recommended practices HourGlass uses an MVS load in a program executing in CICS. When the load fails for any reason CICS becomes non-responsive. Upgrade HourGlass to recognize it is running in CICS and perform an EXEC CICS LOAD com...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Additional ZRECP LONG support to avoid long running behavior when Long Chain Detection thresholds are set too low

Recently during a system outage a Recoup was necessary to validate the integrity of our Database once the system was back up. As part of normal Recoup procedures a ZRECP LONG display entry is made to view logs of DF Files that contain subfiles tha...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Not under consideration

Feature to create a new 'Packages list' should be added to 'CA Endevor Packages' container instead of existing view

Currently to create a new 'Packages List' view, I need to right-click on existing list. This looks as if I am trying to create a view within a view. This is request to add this feature to 'CA Endevor Packages' container, not 'Packages list' contai...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Unable to delete 'Packages list' when this is the only filter

The 'delete' option is grayed out when there is only one filter called 'Packages list'. This seems to be strange. When multiple filters exist this works for every filter except for the last one. It seems to be logical to be able to delete filter y...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Provide a single RTE member in WCONFIG across a sysplex

PARMGEN processing using system variable support should be able to use one RTE member in WCONFIG across a sysplex.
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Lrec ID data collection

TPFDF needs to collect statistics on the access/updates by Lrec id for a given file. These stats do not need to be collected for all files.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

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