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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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Add drop-down for CARMA target remote location

This is request to add drop-down feature when selecting a target location for CARMA remote extract.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Stronger Ciphers for Host Access Toolkit

Would like to request a more compliant ciphers be added to the support for Host Access Toolkit. ciphers like the aes256-ctr as well as others
over 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

CARMA inheriting Endevor Action Options

We would like CARMA to be able to inherit Endevor Action Options
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Status of all the connections defined in the Z/OS project view

In the Z/OS perspective we need to get the status of all the connections defined in the "Remote System" view. As we have several environments and we are regularly facing time out issues we need this clearly until the component level we are updated.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Improved Control Center functions for job schedules

It would be beneficial to be able to create different groups of diverse workloads at an environment\group level and set the future date at that level rather than each diverse workload. Customer current future date requirement is to continually run...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add a facility to alow User show how many Transactions have been processed by a SQ Member

Customer reported that in a Shared Queues environment the /DIS Command Outout does not allow him to verify which IMS in the IMSPlex has processed the Transactions.Customer SP's which are implementing new IMS Shared Queues Environments to proc...
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the IMS SQL batch utility and the IMS DDL generation batch utility

At the moment the only way to execute DDL statements on z/OS is to run the IMS SQL Batch Utility. This utility is using the IMS Universal JDBC Driver to connect to IMS Connect and executes the DDL statements through ODBM. This forces you to setup ...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Callback mechanism when datagrid detects a size of 0 when rendering children which have data

When a webservice call is executed, meanwhile the widget which did the action can be closed/changed by another widget (datagrid to detail and back for example) or can be made unvisible (when using a tab mechanism for example). When the webservice ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Add enhancement to Adv Catalog Manager

Request For Enhancement to Tivoli Adv Catalog Mgnt 2.4 . Problem description This is not a problem but a Request For Enhancement (RFE) to Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS v2.4. Currently, the Advanced Catalog Management product has a ca...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

XLF: request support for -shared flag consistent with the XLC usage

The XLC compiler accepts the "-shared" flag as an alias to "-qmkshrobj" to create shared object (.so) files, but the XLF compiler does not. The XLF option -shared is not documented but is not identified as invalid when it is used. Using -shared do...
almost 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 4 Not under consideration