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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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Enhance Capability of DFSNDMX0 Exit

1) Pass information to exit to indicate if a deadlock abend was due to an ESS deadlock. Business value: DB2 handles lock timeouts on object locks, such as tablespace locks, as deadlocksThese are persistent conditions, a retry of the transaction is...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Future consideration

Message when PPI status changes

Some NetView functions need to connect to the NetView PPI to be operational. We can see these vis DISPPI command. We manage a couple of function using SA and have to poll the DISPPI command to check the connection. To make this processing better, ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.
3 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Cobol Editor should have the preference: Host Characters (like LPEX editor)

The Cobol Editor does not display non-displayable characters correctly. The LPEX editor does have the option to replace characters (LPEX Editor -> Appeareance -> Host Characters) . This allows us that for certain non-displayable characters (...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

Displaying files with non-printable or compressed characters with the LPEX editor

Related case: TS016645534 The LPEX editor does not print all non-printable or compressed characters in the same way, causing the data to be displayed misaligned. As seen in the attached files, from the terminal (indent.png) we can check that the d...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

Use CICS Policy to replace CPSM RTA functionality (Check if LU62 Connection is Aquired)

Currently we use CPSM RTA extensively. We are going through a program of review and replacement, mainly with CICS Policies. However, CICS Policies do not check for LU62 Connection Acquired to CICS, so we cannot replace this yet. CICS Policies do c...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

CDP and TWS logs

With TWS , there is an option to wite LOGS and messages in a zFS file ( parm CDP(YES) ). Then the zFS file can be streamed online using CDP (Common Data Provider). However the file is not properly formatted as KV (key=value) for Splunk. Could you ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 2

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