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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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Provide more information in OPR-F and OPR-FFFFFFC dumps

The information provided in the OPR-F and OPR-FFFFFFC dumps is not helpful. There is just not enough information in the dumps to be able to track back to a root cause. Having the original LNIATA, the original EBROUT(if they are different), the ori...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

support National data type in TXseries API

In order to support Multilanguage, the data types will be converted from PIC X single byte to PIC N - National . TXseries API variable should be National data type as well. WE use is when linking a program (LINK) writing TSQ (the TSQ name) ENQ (th...
almost 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Explorer - Editor plug-in needed

I think there is an urgent need for a proper editor plug-in for z/OS Explorer, that will provide at least the same functionality as the ISPF editor for:- COBOL- REXX- JCL- CLIST
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Hotspots options for point-and-select (double click)

Customer want to use mouse to double-click on the screen.HOD does not have this options for point-and-select whencompare with PCOMM.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Not under consideration

Import copybooks from z/OS – add ability to import structures with ++include statements

This support exists for importing from local project but not from z/OS. Our system has lots of these includes and we don't want to support 2 copies of our copy book members, one for our applications and one that would only be used for E4D.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Array Support for copybook overlay

Several of our IMS database segments use dynamic arrays (number of elements imbedded into the structure). We need the capability of modeling these into the E4D tooling to access the data in those arrays.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

In export IMS Resources to z/OS, unable to refresh dataset name.

In export IMS Resources to z/OS, unable to refresh dataset name. There is no option next to the entry window to refresh. We did find out later that you can hit enter and it will refresh but that is not intuitive. Something needs to be added to thi...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Provide ability to copy/paste portions of a sysout from the viewer

ITOM versions prior to v3 utilized the native ISPF facilities for viewing sysouts. This provided access to all the features of View/Browse, including the ability to utilize 'CC' line commands to copy portions of an output to another file for some ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide the ability to see the archive dataset name from viewer

In earlier releases of ITOM the ISPF archive and report viewer was the native viewer or browser. Both would include the name of the archive data set in the ISPF panel heading. In ITOM v3.1 a new ISPF viewer was introduced and the archive data set ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable administrative control for default panel layouts

Provide the ability to setup site wide panel layouts for the archive list layout which will then become part of the end users profile and customized from there. While this specific request is for the archive list layout in the ISPF interface it wo...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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