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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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Cics explorer Enhancement of application activation

The cics explorer we have at the moment is not able to activate and deactivate one ore multiple applications at the same time and move the applicaitons with one step to available state. This habit is very bad, we have to click very often.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

zospt job support

Our Cics Regions run not as started tasks, but as jobs. We would need to create jobs instead of started tasks.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Other 0 Future consideration

Selecting reporting items in Programs Inventory Report.

Having an option to select reporting items in Programs Inventory Report.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show conditional expression on conditional call and goto links in Program Flow.

To have an option to show conditions on the conditional call and conditional goto links in Program Flow graph in Analyze client.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Job Flow graph can display related datasets and their attributes.

Current Job Flow graph only shows job steps.It becomes more useful to understand the structure of jobs if relations between job steps and related datasets are linked in one graph view. It is also preferable if data sets could be displayed with the...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Select a job from member name.

Resource type of JCL job in Explore tab in Analyze client lists only names of collected jobs.There shall be an option to select a job from a list of names of data set members that holds it.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Leave out common code from Code Coverage

Provide the ability to identify code that should not be included in the calculated statistics for Code Coverage. In our case, common code is brought into the application program via a copy book.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 2 Not under consideration

Enhance the looping catastrophic monitor

The looping catastrophic monitor aborts restart after recovery log processing in restart. This is before tape restart and IPC restart. Although it's likely that a looping catastrophic is the same dump, aborting before tape restarts means the last ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add EXCI command level interface support for 64 bits PL/1 programs

When a PL/1 batch program is compiled with the CICS('EXCI') option, EXEC CICS statements are translated into calls to DFHXCIE by the Cics Integrated Translator, whatever the PL/1 LP compile option. When LP32 is in effect, this is fine as DHFXCIE i...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Set up Decision in batch

Currently, you can only manually add Decision in Build Client one by one, when you have large volume of decisions to add, there is no easier way to get these setup than using the dialog in the Build Client.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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