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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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Fully Loaded Vs Sparsely Loaded Workspaces - Incoming Changes

Scenario:- User 1 has fully Loaded Workspace- User 2 Sparse Loaded Workspace- User 1 Delivers to the stream a file that is not loaded by User2- User 2 is notified in Pending Changes (Incoming Folder) Question1: Is there a way to tell that User 2 d...
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Menu Manager - results options open report.

When using menu manager there is a dialog window, we would like the results of this dialog window to be open in view like the spool of a job is open. Other option would be to have Menu manager have a new exit routine that allows me to specif a fil...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

z/OS sftp Monitoring

sftp on z/OS monitoring similar to how MFN monitors FTP running on z/OS Communication Server. Although Communications Manager does not support sftp though the NMI API, since sftp creates SMF 119-96 records, it might be possible for MFN to leverage...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

CICS IMMQUIESCE NOWAIT does not work

issuing an IMMQUIESCE with a QUIESCE outstanding does not work. The IMMQUIESCE command is answered with a DFHFC6001 Dataset Quiesced messaged, but the transaction holding the file is not cancelled. The command will only work after the first quiesc...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Improve GOLC for 24x7 by relaxing requirement that all IMS systems are up.

GOLC requirement to have all IMS systems up (or you are forced to do a cold start) severely constrains operations from running IMS per business needs in a 24x7 environment where other scheduling or operational issues may require processors to be d...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

support not just level 1 copy books in IMS SOAP XML gateway mappings

When creating an IMS SOAP XML Gateway mapping, RDz only allows selection of level 1 structures in copy books. However, there are times when we would like to select level 3 or 5 structures of the copy book.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

Save mappings and other configs to simplify modifications to web services

When an IMS SOAP XML Gateway web service is modified, RDz should have a way to save the prior settings and to simply make modifications to them instead of having to completely rebuild everything from scratch.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 6 Not under consideration

Multiple GLO2123I messages caused multiple incident ticket to be created

DBS Bank is using GLO2123I messages to automatically create an incident record in the incident/event management system however due to multiple GLO2123I messages generated by TAAM, i.e. one message per action taken caused multiple incident records ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

System z Data Editor: Change editor by "Open with"

After opening a file or member by System z Data Editor it should be possible to change the editor by "Open with". The System z Data Editor doesn't offer this function.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

System z Data Editor: Show found string using Find-Function

If you do a find request within the System z Data Editor the first line containing the string is highlighted and is scrolled to the beginning of the editor view. But we would like the editor to do additional highlighting to the string found and to...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

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