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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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Need the ILMT agent to run on Linux systemD

I am unable to install the ILMT agent on SLES12 and RHEL 7 Linux systemD.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Adding DDL space statements per Area or Partition

DDL space statements per Area or Partition We would like to have the space statement for area or partition in DDL statement similar to DB2. DB2:CREATE TABLESPACE EDASHF01 IN DDASHF00 NUMPARTS 124 (PART 1 USING STOGROUP DB2HAE PRIQTY 266400 SECQTY ...
almost 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

DWC Tag a critical path job with user whom is researching

on DWC, operators would like to TAG a critical path job that they are currently working on to prevent duplicate research efforts.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Report Latency on workloads with no connections

Where applications update multiple data sources (DB2 and VSAM) through a single set of connections, multiple workloads need to be defined but the connections can only be associated with one workload. In this case, a workload is defined without any...
almost 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Supress Workload Switch in GDPS/A-A UI

In the case where there is shared data across multiple applications/workloads it may not be possible to implement the GDPS/A-A workload switch capability, since it would prevent access to the shared data by applications outside of the workload on ...
almost 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Unplanned switch for workload groups

Any workload grouping capability delivered in GDPS/A-A should equally apply to un-planned switches. In particular, it should be possible to configure invokation of an unplanned switch of a workload group by responding to a single WTOR relating to ...
almost 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Supress Set Fence During Workload Switch

Have the functionality within GDPS/A-A to disable setting of the fence in DB2 (and VSAM, once that becomes available) during planned and unplanned workload switches. The reason for the request is due to a workload that reads data owned by another ...
almost 8 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

RULES(NOLAXPERF) and INSPECT TALLYING

The RULES(NOLAXPERF) option don't scan the INSPECT TALLYING verb.
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Having wrong storage declaration detected.

In data declaration to bypass the old VS/COBOL II limitation of 32764 max per item the developers have sometime coded to contiguous 01 or 77.Only the first data area is used so STGOPT discards the second at compile time.Could the compiler points o...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

DFSRRC00/BMP and IMSID

BMP runs with DFSRRC00 uses IMSID=xxxx to indicate which IMS the BMP should connect to. If IMSID used in JCL is an invalid subsystem in the LPAR, BMP fails with 0688. However if IMSID used in JCL is a valid non-IMS subsystem, the BMP does not fail...
almost 8 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

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