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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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Enhance INGEXEC to allow local substitution of System Variables

Ingexec will allow you route commands to another system and will allow the customer to specify # for the AOCQRY variables that should be substituted on the system of execution and for the resource in which the ingexec is using. Currently I specify...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) The toolchain should support creating an OLD/TLD deck containing a list of file system files to delete from TPF

Currently, bldtpf supports being passed a loadfile in order to create a deck containing a list of file sytsem files to load. However, there is no support to be able to create a deck that @@DELETEs a list of file system files. The load deck has to ...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhance CTC AT-TLS configuration flexibility

In order to successfully negotiate a secure connection CTC requires that the requested trust certificates be defined within its private keyring. Often the certificates needed by CTC have long since been available in the trust store, but due to thi...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Super Session to pass CV64 when using virtual terminals

The source ip address does not reach CICS when using Super Session. When making a direct connection without SS or using the Pass function of SS the ip address reaches CICS. We attribute this difference to the use of virtual terminals in SS. Additi...
almost 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Support COMPATBILITY mode(s) to aid compiler migration

In order to migrate to a new compiler, all new warnings or errors in user code must be corrected and/or user defined compiler overrides must be applied to suppress warnings enabled by default for the new compiler. Some shops may require all code r...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide version or timestamp to validate a program

There is a need to validate that a CICS application program hasn't changed when it moves through a CD pipeline. So some sort of version or timestamp is required.
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Automatic remote project file delete problem

I want to prevent automatic removal of files in a remote z/OS project. See also use case description. Why is it deleted from the project view without further question? Please turn off this behavior or add a confirmation prompt before deleting. Tha...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration

possibility to add a CEEOPTS prefix

Customer needs to debug a pgm and needs to have CEEOPTS prefixed(like //DB2PREFIX.CEEOPTS DD *) For the JCL generation, he right clicked the source pgm, then askedprobably generate the JCL "For compile link debug". The generation added //CEEOPTS D...
over 5 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Space Abends in Sort and others

The client is looking for a solution to get rid of ALL space abends. My client is looking for a solution to get rid of x37 space abends. We have recommended regular volume additions, periodic JCL review, SORT tuning exercises etc as IBM best pract...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Inbound CICS transaction tracking for SNA or IP Sockets connection

Many big bank customers in Asia Pacific have applications like core banking and credit card applications still using SNA or IP Sockets as the inbound connection to CICS transactions, they have interest on Instana's observability especially the tra...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration