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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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Search function for program literals to add to Monitor

Hello IBM, we like to have a functionality that was found in Xpediter: When you want to add a variable/literal to the Monitors view "Monitor Expression" and you're not 100% sure how it's call, you should have the option to search for the name of t...
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Avoid GDPS Healthcheck SPOF for single rack DASD subsystems

In TS003711052 we encountered an issue where GDPS/PPRC Healthcheck claimed to detect a single point of failure - "all paths share a SPOF on control unit interfaces". This is not a real issue because the DASD is a single rack subsystem and we expec...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

Enhance HASP050 Base error handling

Requesting enhancement to SA's base handling of the JES message HASP050 so as to accommodate resource types other than TGS. We want to make use of the SA facility to execute recovery commands when SPOOLSHORT conditions are encountered also for non...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Package Software Analyzer as OCI to use with zCX

We would like to be able to run Software Analyzer inside a container as part of our pipeline. It would likely be inside zCX but in the end it could also be on x86. This will ultimately depend on the build environment our customer uses. We are vers...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Provide ability to view and track parameter/data flow across program call boundaries in and ADDI Program Call Graph

Providing this capability will help to better assess program dependencies from a parameter/data perspective in a graphical capacity. This becomes important when assessing how to refactor/segment programs into modular COBOL services where parameter...
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Future consideration

Add feature to chose Local or UTC Time in APPLYUNTIL function

We are very interessed to use point in time recovery in TWS with option APPLYUNTIL (enhancement APAR PH56381 (10.1 SPE3)) but need an option to choose the time used to be coherent with other products like DB2 or applications if we make a global re...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

JSON support for IMS PA FP Region Occupancy report (FPRGORPT)

Provide functionality for the IMS Region Occupancy report (DD FPRGORPT), to make it possible to send output data to an analytics environment in a JSON format. This will simplify the follow up work for system administrators and also easier to find ...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

User can provide baseline value in Profiling reports

Now the Profiling report's baseline must be the other day's SMF data.But we want to set our own baseline value.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

JES2 shutdown updated to handle TCP/IP network servers

Currently, network servers are explicitly ignored during SA's JES2 shutdown and DRAINJES processing. This means customers have to code their own shutdown policy definitions. New entries should be made available for this in the Customization Dialog...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Suppress conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options

The conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options could be resolved by implicitly introducing a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE STATIC" before "EXEC CICS" and a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE" after the "END-EXEC" clause. ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

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