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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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Increase NVP block size

We anticipate sending 40-100 NVPs including NVP metrics. As such, we are concerned that the maximum size of the name value pair area of 4k may be too small at this time.
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Future consideration

RTMC NVP metric support

Today, name-value pairs can be horizontal or vertical annotations of the message being processed. We need to be able to send customer defined metrics as part of the name-value pair data as metrics that behave as data columns instead of the as anno...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Continue commenting when inserting a line break within a comment

Hi IBM, when you edit a comment in a COBOL source in the COBOL editor and you hit ENTER (aka you insert a new line), the new line should be automatically a comment line. At the moment, the cursor is being positioned on the beginning of the text in...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Display dataspaces alloacte for region

In the classic interface under U.K we could see the size of the dataspace allocation for the region. I did not see this facility in the E3270. For tracking the growth and managing the size of our utilization of data tables to is very important to ...
12 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Dynamic facility to re-order columns on summary screens

When dealing with Summary screens, to reorder the screen or add/remove columns from the screen requires that we edit the workspace in the WENU, which is difficult and affects all users of the system. We would like the ability to change column orde...
12 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

TNEW threshold applies to individual CICS transaction.

We are trying to capture docs for a long running task that can run anytime in a CICS region but TNEW function does not work because of the limitation of the threshold apply to the entired CICS started task.
almost 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

VsamDB support by CICS on z/OS

I am interested in the VsamDB functionality allowing to store documents in bson / json format. This function is already available in zos v2.4. I want to use it from a CICS cobol or assembler program. How soon can this function be supported by CICS?
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

require system specific connections for Monitor or IPL Completion

The SA dialogues allow you to specify Monitor for IPL Complete. This is an all or nothing setting for wherever the resource is connected to. Looking for a mechanism to either specify which system this monitoring is for or an documented externalize...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Graph generated using 'Program Control Flow' feature in ides to be exported as PDF

Using 'Program Control Flow' feature in iDz would be good to have a function that allows to export graph not only as svg or png, but also as PDF.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

IBM Z Software Asset Management - Change to "Machine Inventory" report to display number of Crypto Cards.

IBM Z Software Asset Management - Change to "Machine Inventory" report to display number of Crypto Cards. Currently, the columns for "Crypto Online" and "Crypto Installed" are part of the report but they display 0 even if the actual value is not 0...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration