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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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Allow VT to reference Alliases

Customer programs reference table aliases rather than base tables. CICS VT should provide a mechanism to work with DB2 alias names as well as base table names.
almost 13 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

History collection for Enclave Detail attributes in OM XE on z/OS

Enclave Detail attributes cannot be used to create situations or collect history. Customer wants to use that attributes in custom query to create custom report/workspace.
almost 13 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Have real-time errors and warnings be placed into a tab/view for ease of viewing

We would like to have the errors and warnings that are produced during real-time syntax checking be placed into a tab/view such as the Remote Error List or the general Problems views. It would also be nice for the behaviour of items in the list to...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

About Windows server support for RDz V9.5

I would like to introduce RDz V9.5, but since Windows server 2008 R2 is not supported, I would like you to support it.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

About support of RDz V9.1

We are planning to upgrade to z / OS V 2.3, but since RDz V 9.1 is not supported, can you support z / OS V 2.3 with RDz V 9.1 .
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Optimize instance number field in DFHJS2LS generated copybook

An option to predetermine the data type of the -num fields generated for optional fields from the input swagger file.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Java Messuring on Application Base for Cics

We have a Cics Liberty (standalone mode) with multiple applications. If we want to turn on APA in Production this will measure a lot.... We would need a possibility to spezify the application or application jar file to be measured. Liberty is call...
over 6 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF Kafka Server: Integrate Kafka Java based Server into z/TPF

Integrate Kafka Java based Server into z/TPF so that it may be used as a z/TPF Eventing Facility (zEV) as a topic Based Publisher, further, the z/TPF Kafka Server will be able to support subscribers to z/TPF hosted Kafka Topics
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Not under consideration

Ability to IPL from one of several LGFs

We're running a production TPF environment which maintains six data base images (not to be confused with: loader images) by means of the HDS Copy Manager. That is: we have six complete sets of RT DASDs containing recent consistent copies of our TP...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Improve Report Performance

On large applications the report process does not complete.