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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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COBOL Editor : A List Of Functional Hotkeys

In COBOL Editor, when you push the keys Ctrl + Shift + L, you have a list of hotkeys. A majority hotkeys are functional but some do nothing or wrong, some examples : - "Copy Lines" (Ctrl + Alt + Down) is a system hotkey to flip from down to up (gr...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

GUI based BMS with CICS webservice backend

Is is possible to design a GUI front-end type BMS map and pass data via wsbind/wsdl to a back-end CICS program? The 3270 bridge is limited and not at all pretty.
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

More granular OSA buffer usage displays

Currently zosae buffer sums greater than 31 buffer full instances in one bucket. Like to see from 32-65 displayed same way 0-31 are broken-down.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Request audit information for transaction channel

Customer needs audit information for the containers put into the transaction channel to know which program modifies it. Transaction channel is used to pass data in the transaction level, the container put by a program can be read/modify by other f...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

include DB2 SQLCODES in the determination of normal duplicates

fault analyzer does currently consider two different sqlcodes as a normal duplicate
about 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DRD EXPORT should support DDDEF in addition to DSN

The type-2 command EXPORT should support specifying an output DDDEF instead of only permitting a full DSN (and one that doesn't support relative GDG references).
about 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

menu manager - allow us to control sizing of popup menu manager window

I have been building some Menu Manager screen and have been putting the output from my Rexx routine into this popup window. I would like to increase the size of this window so that I don't have to manually increase it every time I run this process...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Refreshing updates in HourGlass

When in the Control Center and have added a new control element or updated an existing control element, it would be really nice to be able to type ACTIVATE on the command line rather than PF3 and selecting option 2 to save and activate.SAVE should...
about 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Omegamon Reflex Automation Security not alined with z/OS Security requirements

The existing Security Management implemented for Reflex Automation was not aligned with basic z/OS security concept. Today if a customer enable the function to propagate the TEP end user that is executing a TEP "TAKE ACTION" on a z/OS Omegamon Age...
about 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 3 Future consideration

Better filter option in RDz 9.5

Maybe this is by design - but I thing you should changed that.I can select a "Retrieved Data Set" and define a New->Filter with selected dataset.This is fine and a nice little feature.But if I select two or more datasets this options is not ava...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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