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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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Undo Redo feature in File Manager

While using File Manager (perspective) in IDz, after making some modifications in a dataset / DB2 table or MQ message, we we would like to do a UNDO, but the option is disabled in the "Edit" menu. this will be very useful feature, kindly enable th...
almost 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IMS emergency restart should be extended to allow the possibilty of an Emergency Restart "light"

A new Emergency Restart light function following an IMS abend would start IMS, perform all DB backouts and resolve any in-doubt threads but not allow any other work to be started. Following the ERE light IMS should terminate - either automatically...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 1 Not under consideration

OLR for PSINDEX

The OLR function should be available for PSINDEX DBs and should include the healing of any broken pointers as part of the OLR process.
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Zoom in context from zAware to IOAz timeframe mismatch

Zoom navigation to IOAz from a selected message in a zAware anomaly interval fails to find the selected syslog message. zAware passes UTC time in the search parameters. IOAz searches on the time setting selected by the user, typically browser work...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Planned for future release

Add additional IDAA fields to transaction information

Please add new fields for the number of create, drop, open, commit, and rollback statements a transaction performed in the following tables: DB2_USER_TRAN_H/D/WDB2_TRANSACTION_D/WA_DB2_USERTRAN_IA_DB2_UT_IDAA_I Each field is from the DB2 accountin...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Software Analyzer - changing sub-menu

When you select 'Software Analyzer' first time, you have two options: 'Software Analyzer Configurations..', 'New Configurations'... The design makes you believe that first option allows you to select the existing configurations, and the second - t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

STIM items scheduled on same minute boundary

after some research we found this was because of a peak in activityscheduled from the STIM table.This bottleneck is caused by the STIM table scheduling too many itemson the same minute boundary, this is most noticable after a long outagewhen TPF i...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

Externalize BPE TTE and TTVE

In IMS V13, IBM is providing macro HWSUSTAT, which has DSECTs HWSUSTAT and HWSLRCTR. From what I understand these DSECTs document the variable entry variable section of the HWS RCTR BPE external trace records (based on BPETRFM0 output). These DSEC...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 3 Not under consideration

ztpld clear out the KSA (keypiont staging area)

Customer is requesting that ztpld program load process program (cil0) always clear out the KSA (keypoint staging area). The reason for the change is that there was an old keypoint in the keypoint staging area when keypoints were being loaded .&nbs...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

IMS Connect needs to retry automatic reconnection to IMS

Whenever IMS Connect disconnects from IMS due to some external issue it doesn´t automatically reconnect back and it generates the error message DFS5386I. We need a solution to IMS Connect to quickly reconnect to IMS and avoid system unavailability.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

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