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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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Refresh application programs in a MPR with persistent JVM

IMS with MPP with persistent JVM. CANCEL_PGM=NO and COBOL main transaction programs calling JAVA methods via COBOL Object Oriented Wrapper and JNI APIs. The Language Environment enclave remains active during all the MPR lifetime in order to keep t...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Future consideration

Optimized LUW_DB2 database query

Currently we create LUW Db2 database manually and then attached that database when we create new project in build client. We do this to create optimized DB2 database by using tweaked create database query. We want to avoid this manual DB2 create s...
4 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Change to generated JCL out of PGM=HSICCSI

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: Currently the CSI report generates IQ-JCL which is pretty much hard coded and therefore not so useful for us. Instead provide t...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

IDz v16.03 make the "Launch Shell" context menu available for Filters in Remote Systems View and on remote directories in the z/OS Projects view

1) Currently in the Remote Systems view the "Launch Shell" context menu only appears on directories listed under a defined filter. Please make the "Launch Shell" context available on the Filter as well. 2) Currently in the z/OS Project View the "L...
8 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Planned for future release

Allow IMS applications to connect with the MQ queue sharing group name

Allow a IMS BMP to issue an MQCONN call specifying the queue sharing group name instead of the queue manager name
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

IPCONN & Transaction AutoInstall

We have a TOR/AOR configuration. In the AOR we have these parameters in order to not define the mirror transactions that use the application: DSRTPGM=ISSDYP00,DTRPGM=ISSDYP00,DTRTRAN=@MIR If we use an MRO connection and execute this command in the...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Timeout for transactions in TCLASS.

Customer would like to be able to define a timeout for TCLASS to begin to purge tasks (PURGETHRESH) rather than relying only on the number of tasks queued.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Support for more advanced JCL parsing when recording

When recording a testcase for zUnit the JCL isn't parsed correctly when the original JCL contains a SYSTIN DD with a dataset leaving the user to do some (not always obvious) manual editing of the JCL before being able to do a record. To improve th...
12 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration

redefining functions in header files - do it the right way

When functions in header files need to be redefined (e.g. to get new default behavior),this should NOT be done by just renaming them with a simple '#define func_new func_old'.Instead, macros should be used like it was done for older XL C/C++ compi...
8 months ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / AIX 4 Not under consideration

CDP and USS files group option

Currently the CDP user can set the group option to config the collected scope either Sysplex or Lpar only for Generic VSAM and Sequential data sets. For Generic zFS data streams, this option is not enabled. Could you change it please ? TS014662042...
12 months ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release