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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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Option on the Generator to create Zoned Numeric fields as Unsigned (rather than signed)

I have an existing MF app that requires unsigned data.
about 2 years ago in Record Generator for Java 3 Future consideration

Update the PSB/ACB in IMS Transaction Isolation tool

A PSB is created to provide access to IMS resources for an IMS program, this is a one-to-one relationship. This relationship makes it difficult if many developers works with the same data and program. If a resource is shared between applications, ...
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CDPz: One datastreamer for multiple data gatherers from different sysplexes

Today, data gatherers and data streamer are locally defined to each LPAR. If we consider that Data Gatherers ( System Data Engine and Log Forwarder ) should stay local to each LPAR, it makes sense to be able to define only one Datastreamer for mul...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Add option to disable SLOWSTART in HSC config

If HSC is used for sending multiple packet messages, network latency is high, and application timeout is set to a low value, SLOWSTART can cause the timeout value to be reached due to packet transmission halted while awaiting TCP ACK. This became ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Software profiler post processor TRAP should be moved to Linux

Software profiler output on TPF can be written to tape or a file system file, but must be post processed on zOS. The post processor should be supported on Linux.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Future consideration

Persistent sessions HTTPS between TWS Z-centric agent and TWS Z/OS

We would like an evolution of the TWS Z-centric agent in the management of HTTPs sessions between the server and its TWS Z/OS controller. Currently, each time a TWS Z/OS controller job submits a job on a TWS Z-centric agent, 2 new TCP sessions are...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

CDPz new feature to capture ALL JES2 sysouts instead just JOBLOG

We have presented CDPz to customer and as Logs consolidation strategy, customer wants to capture all JES2 SYSOUTS and send it to distributed platform. As CDPz is a solution to capture mainframe data, maybe this feature can be added in the roadmap.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

Allow maintenance of SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3

The SYSTEM.ACCESS.TABLE.V3 records user logon/logoff times. This table grows and grows as users are added and deleted. There is no management of the table. I would be good if either the record for a user was deleted when other tables related to a ...
about 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

IDz Dead Code functionality for PL/I

In RDz and IDz, the Identify Unreachable Code functionality is not available for PL/I. This same functionality is available in COBOL, but not an option to identify dead code for PL/I code. We are needing this functionality to address our overall M...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Implement way to set CICS/DB2 check in Prop Group temporary on remote syntax check

For us as customer it's not possible to distinguish between modules with/without CICS or DB2 to select the correct property group with/without CICS or DB2. This means, the remote syntax check will always find issues in COBOL sources with EXEC SQL ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration