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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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Suppress SNAPC console messages

Create new ZASER and ZIDOT options to suppress SNAPC console messages.1) ZASER SNAP CONSDMP to suppress nodump msgs2) ZIDOT SNAP NOMSG prefix.error to suppress sending console messages of a particular SNAPC dump.
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Data Flow / Data Flow Hierarchy View avoidance of suppressed assignments

Assignments that occur multiple times are suppressed in the views.Important information is simply suppressed. This only confuses and leads to wrong assumptions and errors. The problem occurs in both Dataflow and Dataflow Hierarchy views See use ca...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 6 Future consideration

TPFDF Cruise Verify should give number of items per Lrec Id

Today the CRUISE VERIFY utility gives the total number of ITEMS.We would appreciate to have also the number of items for each Lrec id.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

Introduce FIRST volume selection option to primary space allocation

TAAM goes on evaluating volumes one by one to find out the best volume to allocate primary space for submitted Job .If a large number of volumes were needed to evaluate by TAAM, it took quite a long time . In some batch job cases took 10 to 20 min...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Customize Available Columns

The Available_Columns under the Columns_Definition table are limited and not customizable.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Need documentation on what to backup and restore on the ZD&T Web server

If the ZD&T Web server is on an image that needs to be rebuilt then what needs to be backed up and restored: database, repository storage, license server if applicable, ...
almost 4 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Future consideration

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information.

zddsi enhancement request to include PCHID information . Customer is asking for an enhancement request to ZDDSI to include the PCHID information that is associate with the CHIPID for the associated device. This information would be very useful in ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

product needs to display sumary of 4HRA for all lpars

Customer wants to track spending for hardware which is summary of 4HRA for all lpars. The products does not provide a summary of this.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

KAFKA Consumer

Citi z/TPF group has recently received a request to support KAFKA as a consumer. We are actively investigating the possibilities. One staff member was able to get a quick proof of concept working for this very quickly (One day). We are asking IBM ...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

IP address in HTTP POST

It is common to bind a web service to the hostname and not to the IP address.But INGOMX resolves the defined host name and uses the ip address in the HTTP POST request.This results in HTTP404 - not found. To prevent this, the INGOMX directive <...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration