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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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Support submitting PSB changed definitions as DDL statements from IMS Explorer

Hi, IBM IMS Explorer does not have support to submit PSB changes as DDL statements to an IMS system. But it does for DBD definition changes.
over 4 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Future consideration

automatic recall of migrated datasets when using zUnit

zUnit creates some dediated files on mainframe, but if those datasets get migrated, zUnit is not able to recall these datasets automatically. Can this be provided ?
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

z/TPF Geographically Dispersed Processing for High Availability

Multiple z/TPF Customers; Citibank, SABRE, Marriott, Amex, and TVPT, desire an implementation of z/TPF where at least two geographically dispersed z/TPF Loosely Coupled Computing Cluster (LCCC) Systems may cooperatively process against the same da...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhanced eventing API

Customer is looking for z/TPF to be enhanced to support some sort of external interface that allows the current ECB to exceed MAXEVENTS.  Conceptually, the current ECB should be able to call some restricted external API that gives it the priv...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG) Stop counting HSC closed by remote server as an error or provide a separate counter.

Today if a HSC endpoint is using persistent SSL sockets, and the remote server closes the socket it can cause the error count to be incremented. This is noticeable when the remote system implements an inactivity timeout on the socket, and there is...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add an option to allow APA to identify areas in foreign address spaces

In our shop, IMS and CICS run as JOBs, as opposed to Started tasks, and when capturing APAs for IMS Dependent Regions, areas that are in the IMS CTL or DLISAS cannot be identified by APA, showing as "Unresolved Addresses". Add a customizable optio...
about 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update Synchronise process to advise the status of each stage and clearly highlight any failures rather than just having them hidden in the middle of the logs

This will be useful as it will provide a single location to identify if any parts of the synchronise process has failed. It will be of benefit to anyone who uses the synchronise process as it will enable either manual or automatic checking of the ...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Improve IMS OTMA resilience in periods of system slowdown.

OTMA storage utilization includes static storage for control blocks and variable storage for various buffers and working storage.The variable storage both varies in size and in duration of allocation, depending on phase of OTMA processing.System s...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Enhance INGMOVE to support SYSTEM MOVE groups

Enhance INGMOVE with an option to support SYSTEM move groups. The option may be LOCAL or SYSTEM vs. a default of SYSPLEX. Using this new option would produce an alternate move panel showing a list of resources in the group with options similar to ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) Provide a ZBOST STOP ISTREAM option that collapses all boosted i-streams

ZBOST STOP ISTREAM says it stops I-Stream Boost but it just immediately collapses the highest boosted i-stream number and sets the timer for the next to collapse in 1 minute. We need an option that will collapse all boosted i/streams to the CAP va...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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