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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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Move DB2 package fields to the package tables

Please move the following package detail information from the DB2 transaction tables, to the package table where they are more useful: SELECT_ACC INSERT_ACC UPDATE_ACC DELETE_ACC DESCRIBES_ACCPREPARE_ACC OPEN_ACC CLOSE_ACC FETCH_ACC LOCK_ACC CALL_ACC
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Rendering Name filter results is very slow in Show In > Data Elements view

The Name filter is very slow when a program has a lot of variable. There should be an option to turn the key press listener off and only re-render the list when the Enter key is pressed.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Cannot create a COM folder on Windows

Windows do not create folders named COM1 to COM9: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa#invalidfilefoldernames https://answe...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

Automation Status file cleaning tool

The ASF file is used to store events reported as errors. They are used to set the threshold values for various automation processes. Thresholds are specified as number of occurences in time windows and the largest is 24 hours. So events older than...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Preserving the VSAM datasets available in IzTA's memory even after an IPL

Currently, there is a need to load the VSAM datasets to the IzTA in-memory table every time the system is IPL'd, and the workaround is to set up a quasi-automated process to load the same. Customers would be interested to have those processes happ...
12 months ago in IBM Z Table Accelerator 0 Future consideration

ADDI Impact analysis report not scrollable

Impact analysis report is not scrollable - Customer has to click on arrows to see the report..
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
12 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

More shortcut on record filtering to have a faster way to get the output data

Cause : to have a faster way to get the output data Requirement : when select option 1 (to view the file), requires the ability to straight away enter the dataset name to be browsed, the copybook to be use and the selection on one single screen as...
almost 3 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support ability to compare a current segment layout field with a previous segment layout field.

File Manager supports creating templates that map segmented records. A segmented record is one where different portions of the record are mapped with different layouts. The template has to know how to identify which possible segment layouts apply ...
12 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Change ASMA033I severity from 0 to 4

Our product requires 241 separate assemblies. When reviewing a gen, we take closer looks at any assembly having a non-0 completion code. ASMA033I errors currently are SEV 0. That means that they get missed when a GEN is reviewed. If they were chan...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Future consideration