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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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Silent printing using Print API

The ability to print a document(s) received using the print API without having the user to use the print preview on their browser for each document sent. current applicative solution is a pop-up window on the client side browser holding the HTML c...
15 days ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

.NET Core+ versions of EntireX DLLs

Microsoft has been clear for sometime that .NET Core and beyond is where their support for the .NET platform lies now. The .NET versions of the EntireX runtimes have languished in .NET Framework with no sign of .NET Core support. If you're serious...
15 days ago in EntireX 1 Submitted

Extend limit on WAPL request

I opened a case about a request I would like to run with WAPL (TS017700231) We found one, but the result seems to big and I face a limit of the product. According to the Tech assigned on my case: it's a well known limitation. After few thousands l...
29 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Be able to use ZIIP feature with Log Data Manager.

IZPCA Log Data Manager feature is an ISPF/TSO application which needs to be coded in a special way in order to allow the caller environment to use Ziip processors. To avoid this inconvenience BATCH environment calling DRLPLC should be used instead...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add parameters SYSTEMS to VPCEQURY on the G-Sys (GDPS GM)

We are in the middle of exploiting LCP. Every evening we perform an automatic IPL of the CVE (Cybervault Verification Environment) from the flashcopy devices to see if the data is readable and there are no issues. Before we start we want to check ...
9 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

See support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86

Support for building and loading outside of s390x, especially on x86 The most likely operating system is going to be an x86 Linux system (Red Had or Ubuntu) Programs that we need to be ported to x86 The binutils toolchain(tpf-g++,tpf-ld, tpf-ar, t...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 4 Not under consideration

IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
over 3 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

GDPS should recover from secondary dynamic pathing problem

After problems on the secondary Metro Mirror devices due to maintenance on channel paths, following messages occurred: IOS210I PATH RECOVERY INITIATED FOR PATH xx on CU yyyy REAS PATHING ERROR and IOSHS0010I DYNAMIC PATHING IS NOT INITIALIZED FOR ...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration

Allow specification of region type in IMS command - UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH)

Currently when we promote programs we stop and start all our message regions. Doing a UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH) returns a return code of 8 due to - CC 48 NOT ALLOWED FOR IMS RESOURCE. This means we would not be able to setup alerting on th...
9 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

IDz version in the application logs

We need to know which version of the IBM Developer for ZOS is using each developer of our organization. Our question is if any of the application logs are writing this information. We are using this Audit Data:https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/explorer-...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 0 Under review

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