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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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No warning message from command line had something unexpected occurred during debugging session

Need a Debug Tool warning message from command line or popup had something unexpected occurred during debugging session like abend ASRA.    Customer does not have Debug Tool log window open.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CF UTIL % can be made available in the TEPS

We are running z/OS 1.13 with TEMS 6.2.3 and Omegamon XE for z/OS v5. 1.0. We recently had an issue where one of our CF structures ( VCFB) in BCC reached 100% CPU (Processor Utilization). It appears that our MQ structure 'VQDAJ00' filled up and ou...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Failing security messages causing confusion

Request pre-checks on inactive jobs the unauthorized messages could be suppressed but the messages for actual failed requests could still be generated.
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request to provide expiring MQ message user exit.

Currently, when am MQ message expires, the message is simply deleted. There is no visibility to the expiry event. If a user exit was available, a decision to extend the expiry time could be made or at a minimum, logging the message that was expiri...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

AT GLOBAL OCCURENCE not supported in remote debug session

If user issues:AT GLOBAL OCCURRENCE BEGIN ; EQA2428E This command is either invalid or unsupported. %IF %CONDITION = 'ENDFILE' THEN BEGIN ; EQA2428E This command is either invalid or unsupported. Command is not supported in remote debug session***...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Outline possibility to hide procedure constructs ie. do, select and other?

From RDz 8.5 the outline view has been enhanced greatly, including a-z ordering, hide of different parts of the outline content(includes, labels etc.) however their exists no functionality which can hide the "program structures" elements. Looking ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Future consideration

Enhance CARMA version history view

The "CARMA version history" view should be enhanced to break down different fields into separate column for easier reference, rather than combined all into a single "Comment" column.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Increase SIP field MXRECID in DATACO macro to allow for greater than 500.

DATACO (SIP macro) allows RECID be the number between 2 and 500. We need to increase the maxrecid in PSS to 1500 but SIP only allows for 500. Can this be increased? We would like to update this value in SIP to match the online value.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Fault Analyzer needs to format out Handle Table Entries set for HANDLE CONDITION / HANDLE AID / HANDLE ABEND

We need the capability to view formatted HTB (Handle Tables). These are part of the PG domain. Each time a program issues a HANDLE CONDITION, HANDLE AID, or HANDLE ABEND, entries get put in the a handle table.
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please remove the latch requirement for DMB obtained during DB compression

We had some IMS BMP performance related issues that showed the more jobs we ran on an LPAR against the same database/partition the slower the jobs would run. Upon review of the IMS Monitor reports and IMS latching log records we noticed a rather s...
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

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