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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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Domain per client

Domain per client with multiple projects, needs complete isolation from each other, can specify rules & parms. Domain is an openstack concept.
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Utility required to identify code loaded to TPF that was built with a given compiler version or earlier

As part of compiler migration work we have to identify code loaded to TPF that was built with a version of the compiler that is no longer guaranteed to be compatible with a new compiler online execution environment. E.g. the GCC 7 execution enviro...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Associate complete program with include

A developer tries to edit a PL/I include member, which has a complete program associated.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

IBM JVM needs to support default credentials cache file created by native kinit program

IBM JVM needs to support default credentials cache file created by native kinit (/usr/bin/kinit) program, like Oracle JVM does today. Our client OCC (big US financial company) requires to secure access to HDFS with Kerberos. We anticipate that mor...
about 7 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

z/TPF zMQ support for multiple MQ Connection Names to Multi-Instance (MI) MQ Servers

1. Z/TPF currently generally needs to interact with Multi-Instance (MI) distributed MQ Clusters through a Virtual IP Address (VIP) and Load Balancer or similar abstracting infrastructure. 2. This is because z/TPF does not support multiple MQ Conne...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Show actual start time of the active tasks on "cicsadmin list task" command output

When we check the active tasks by using cicsadmin command, we noticed that the displayed start time of the tasks isn't correct. Instead of the actual start time, current time and date information, which belongs to the time when we run cicsadmin co...
over 1 year ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Override EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS at the report level

We would like the capability of defining a different "from" email address for certain reports emailed by Output Manager, rather than using the address that is defined in policy for "EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS".Currently specified is the email address of t...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

zUNIT need functionality to auto-generate test cases for mainframe application for each type of element

Many RBC mainframe legacy applications that are 30 - 40 years. As they are in need to integrate Quality Control Gating it requires to introduce a huge number of test cases.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 6 Future consideration

Update Sample code inline with product changes

Please can you update EQQJVXIT to represent the latest DSECT for the current plan record layout. The record layout has changed many time and the last update to this module was in TWS V8.5.1. Please can you update the DSECT's for CPOC, CPOP and CPW...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support to run ZVDT on z/VM based Linux on Z Systems

The customer wants to use ZVDT on Linux on Z guests, which run on z/VM. Please make this scenario officially supported.
over 1 year ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

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