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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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Taking code coverage of processes which runs many PL/I programs

Our request is to capture a code coverage data of over 10,000 programs running on a IMS FP region without restarting a IMS FP region. Our online modules running on IMS FP are managed by SAIL framework, a IBM Japan asset programs. There, basically ...
over 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

TPFUG: Enhance z/DFDL to process complex schemas more quickly and efficiently using choice keys

Reference IBM Case: TS010552059 zDFDL CTL 10 Z/TPF Lab's Bradd Kadlecik's analysis of the CTL-010 revealed that the problem was not with the size of the source event message being zDFDL parsed, but the time needed to parse a complex zDFDL schema t...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZRTMC Results Monitor

The ZRTMC analytics pipeline is made up of several components and can be configured to send several different types of data. An individual component could fail and cause data to not be available, or a specific type of data may not be available. As...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

File Manager to recognize Regular Expressions to use for Searching for value strings to change or for deletion.

This RFE is to request Regular Expressions be recognized by File Manager, specifically in the Find/Change option to better assist customers with, e.g., mass changes to JCL libraries.
over 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 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.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Future consideration

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

Value of the %{jobStatChgEvt1.ActualStart} variable

The variable %{jobStatChgEvt1.ActualStart} that is used in Event Rule Action, Generic action, timeout actions doesn't retune start time in correct format.Example: it return this value 2018-03- 01T22:00:18Z/Australia/Perth While job logs shows like...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

TWS job status missing when tracker is down

Problem: TWS job status might be lost when tracker is restarted. This impact production batch and business. Request: TWS should recheck all the running jobs status during tracker is down when tracker is restarted again.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Use SHEMAs in TDSz SDRLDEFS members

Instead of specifying the prefix on every DB2 resource, please instead use a SET SCHEMA command in the DDL distributed with TDSz. This will allow a single ID to own all of the DB2 resources created during installation, across an enterprise. Many D...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 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