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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) 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

Multi Factor Authentication compatibility with Infoprint Central

This request is to have Infoprint Central compatible with Multi Factor Authentication. Currently, we cannot sign into Infoprint Central using multi factor authentication. According to the doc, the apache server needs 64 bit enabled and configured,...
almost 6 years ago in Printsw / Infoprint Server and Transforms 4 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

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

INGDB2 TERM add a possibility to define a User value for the LIMIT keyword

With DB2 9.1 message DSNV514I is new. DSNV514I DISPLAY THREAD OUTPUT CONTINUED (CMDID=command_id) explaination: A -DISPLAY THREAD command output directed to an MVS console is continued. This output is linked to the group of -DISPLAY THREAD message...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

A List Relationships panel to list resources which have a relationship defined to the selected resource.

When modifying a resource, it is sometimes necessary to identify resources which have a relationship to the resource. There is currently no easy way to determine this information. It would be useful if there was a List Resources display (in the RE...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

SPUFI-like DDL interface

As discussed during IMS managed ACB meeting, we would prefer to have SPUFI-like DDL interface instead of java based SQL Batch utility.
almost 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Include Summary Data in CICS requested dumps when more than one address space

The CICS documentation states that the CICS Dump exit will always produce a dump summary - see: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/5.5?topic=dfhpd720-dump-summary-error-index but formatting a recent series of LG0772 dumps from a logger issue at 5...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

ZMDES DISPLAY full path display needed

ZMDES DISPLAY doesn't always display the full path to files. Comments from the PMR state that file paths are longer than we can fit in the tabular display. Those get shortened. The end of the path is deemed most important, since the assumption is ...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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