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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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Add Ability to Display Erroneously Available File Addresses

Currently, there is no function available to create a list of erroneously available addresses for analysis. We would like to see another option for ZRECP DISPLAY similar to the lost address display - like ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON FA ID-PR MAX-10. The d...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Can CUZ#EXPR be changed so it only produces reports and doesn't delete anything

CUZ#EXPR is run to delete expired backups from the repository and cloud service(s). I would be nice if there were an option available to allow it to produce the reports of what will be deleted without actually doing the deletes. The reports can th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

zsock ipmt enhancement

Customer is requesting the zsock ipmt display to include items like the ip addresses and port numbers for the socket plus to include the actual counts of datagrams instead of how many ‘blocks' this socket may have a datagram in.
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) New user exit to avoid SNAP CPSI ECB generation

SNAPC processing CXFRC's a new ECB to CPSI even if the SNAP is being suppressed (ZASER S NODUPL or ZIDOT SUPPRESS etc). A check is done to ensure at least 6% ECBs/frames are available so this processing should not cause an outage, but it can resul...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Flexible USS FILTER

The current Application USS FILTER field is limited as the filter is basically the command string which can be truncated from the right. The filter should be enhanced to allow;1) full unix grepEg in filter define: grep [options] PATTERN2) standard...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Enhance ZSOCK INACT to close sockets in Input List Shutdown

Enhance ZSOCK INACT to close sockets in Input List Shutdown to free up socket related resources quickly and provide a faster way to get out of ILS. Currently ZSOCK INACT has resource checks that stop closing of sockets in a quick manner.We suggest...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

QCF should show Commit Mode and Synchlvl information within the message prefix

VTS is a large user of APPC and OTMA transaction, they would like to be able to see Commit Mode and Synchlvl information within the message prefix . This will allow them to understand what are the specific setting of APPC and OTMA messages (from a...
about 9 years ago in IMS Queue Control Facility for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

XL Fortran Bogus Error on Assumed Shape Dummy Argument of BIND(C) Procedure

The XL Fortran compiler gives a bogus error message for the below valid Fortran program. The restriction that presumably generates this error message was replaced in Fortran 2018 standard (sec 18.3.6 point 5). Furthermore, the XL compiler provides...
over 4 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 1 Future consideration

CICS Transaction Server Gateway

CICS TS Gateway provides Average Response time in its returned Gateway statistics for the interval or the day. We need total response time, so that we can elicit the statistics on whatever interval we choose and be able to derive the average respo...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Change mfivarsubsaction in Menu Manger to not remember previous entries

We use Menu Manager for a lot of custom actions within IDz, including actions to interact with our SCM, Endevor. We give users the ability to right click a module in the Remote Systems view and select from a range of Endevor actions, like add to E...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

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