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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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(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to identify build dependencies resulting from code changes.

When code changes are made today, the accuracy and completeness of the list of impacted components that need to be rebuilt is dependent on: a) Developer knowledge of the type of impact that result from code changes of varying types. b) Manual scan...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Not under consideration

Configure replacement for OR expression "|" in PL/1 Editor

Since the "|" character, which is used for the OR expression is not well reachable on lots of keyboard layouts, customers tend to assign the "!" instead of "|" in their Environment. In Z/os file mappings for PL/1, it is already possible to re-defi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

add new field to AUDITLOG with CPU Usage

It would be interesting if on zWS/TWS/IZWS/IWS auditlog could have the batch job cpu usage added to it. Having CPU usage of the batch completed/failed/etc on it would open possibility for new reports on the tool and also not to have have to create...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IDz headless Code Coveage daemon output destination

For the IDz headless Code Coverage daemon, need an option to support output destination to remote location e.g. Git
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Global Tranclass

Control the number of simultaneous executions of the same transaction, where the maximum allowed amount is defined, regardless of the number of CICS regions that execute this transaction.Such control aims to avoid resource contention due to the hi...
about 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Application Discovery Support of Assembler ASM IMS Calls

Customer has assembler programs that accesses IMS database via ASMTDLI calls. Without the support for ASMTDLI, customer would not be able to have a complete view of the IMS database usage.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow to assign one operator to an APL and/or MTR

Some resources are highly mission critical. Actions against those resource have been immediatly be processed.
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

FARF6 fixed file for traditional TPF databases

Most of our databases are zTPFDF. Our database growth is primarily FARF6. Our pools control records are FARF5. With each pool gen we must increase the various pools control records allocations, requiring additional UFT/FTI5 pairs. We are exhaustin...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Enhance the z/OS Explorer CM plugin​ to support MFA

CICS Configuration Manager V5.4Our application teams have requested the ability to use the CM plugin as an alternative to the ISPF panels. In order to achieve this we would require the CM plugin be enhanced to support MFA.
about 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 0 Future consideration

Shadow jobs between zOS and TwsD : Matching criteria same scheduled date

Between TWS 8.6 zOS and TwsD 9.1 shadow jobs, the only value for "matching criteria" is "previous". We'd like you to offer also the value "same scheduled date". Thanks for your feedback.
over 10 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Planned for future release