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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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SA timers on Application

In the SA dialog timers for lpars are specified under "30 TMR Timers". We also specify a lot of timers on the application in the STARTUP phase under ANYSTART with the CHRON command to set timer and in the SHUTDOWN phase under INIT to purge the tim...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

COBOL to JSON conversion schema assistant(DFHJS2LS) to allow specification of which COBOL internal datatype is to be mapped rather than defaulting to Comp-2

Issue description: simple test that makes very visible that an issue exists in the serialization from COBOL to JSON: a. We have a JSON “double” in the input named “test_comp_2” valued with 2.003, for example. b. We have a JSON “double” in the...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Weighted Msg Rate and Tivoli Functionality To Manipulate Data

Provide weighted message rate statistics based on formulas used in Data Reduction. In addition to actual "weighted message rate counts", either provide related statistics (DASD/VFA I/O per message, or an enhancement to Tivoli that would allow mani...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Warning message if last transaction is removed from a CPSM transaction group.

When deleting transactions from a CPSM transaction group or moving a transaction definition from one CPSM transaction group to another (Take), if the transaction group become empty generate a warning message/SM Explorer Alert that the group is emp...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Better validation of License server names

If you by accident type in a invalid host name for the License server in the zD&T EE Admini interface, you do not get an error, but at the instance deployment time you get a strange error that the target cannot communicate with the ZD&T EE...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Add time offset parameter to cloud server definition

In order to successfully connect with a cloud server the system and server times must be somewhat synchronized. CTC sets its time based on system time. Given the geo-dispersed nature of cloud storage this may not always be close enough to allow fo...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Indicator in the Analyze Client interface to tell the user if the project is ready for discovery

Currently users don't know if a project is completed as the last step of a MAKE or BUILD action nl. batch server callgraph update process, is hidden. It must be clear for users if they can rely on the analysis results or if the batch portion is st...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

API to fill manually the Remote Error List

In IDz we would like to offer to our developers the Remote Error list filled with the compile errors / warnings / information of Cobol Programs. Since we have a multi-step-compile we cannot use the usual way for this feature due to a shift of the ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

ZWS Support for SMF Exit IEFU86

z/OS 2.3 introduced SMF Exit IEFU086, which is being recommended to use in place of IEFU83, IEFU84, and IEFU85 since it can handle the new extended SMF record header. IEFU86 is currently not documented nor is a customized sample version shipped wi...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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