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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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Prevent RCL step restart JCLI Error under JES3

During step restart under IZWS Restart & Cleanup under JES3, the C/I component performs a catalog look-up on all the data sets of the job, not just starting from the restart step. The restart fails with a JCLERR because of the following JES3 C...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Upgrade supplied CL/SuperSession to v3.2

ADCD comes with "5601-B28 IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS 2.1". This RFE requests that "5698-CL3 IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS 3.1" be supplied instead.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Provide capability to recover JES2 buffers other than TGS (SPOOL)

Provide flexible code to support monitoring and recovery of JES2 buffers similar to TGS (SPOOL).
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

INGQRY/AOCQRY was not available for MTR resources

INGQRY/ING$QRY delivers attributes of an APL resource.No INGQRY/AOCQRY was available for MTR resources.
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

The USERID should be always processed in upper case

Actually the USERID received from CTG requests, INBOUND Web services and the CESL/CESN transactions are kept in the regions as they are entered by the client application or in the terminal. We expect that the USERID value is always in upper case.
almost 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Continuation line for conditional compilation directives

A line of COBOL source code, limited to columns 8 to 72, to express a complex compilation condition, (>>if, >>when), with variables names that can be relatively long, is not sufficient.It is necessary to use artifices by using intermed...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) ZRTMC collected data needs to include RHT and event table data

ZRTMC deliverables include NVPC data and CDC data. However, this data provides no insight into issues that may be due to processing contention. Primary sources of ECB contention are:1) the RHT 2) CORHC/ENCQC 3) hopefully less likely, but the addit...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Restart a failed shared SSL daemon process automatically?

Using the description from the CASE.jvfarmer (IBM)Jan 18, 2022, 08:42We have been working on diagnostic improvements to shared SSL, and have gotten some corruption detection in place, but we don't believe adding this code formally is the correct a...
almost 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SYSTEM AUTOMATION TO BE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN PARENT TASKS THAT START A CHILD TASK WITH THE SAME NAME

There are applications should as WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and Control-O, where the applications starts multiple secondary tasks with the same name, but different step name. This makes is difficult for automation to monitor and manage. Automa...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API, not specific appsettings.json. We are using Custom Configuration Provided to read configurations from DB.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration