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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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CTGSMFRD provided pre-compiled

All z/OS customers have COBOL compiler installed but not all have C compiler. Could a pre-compiled CTGSMFRD (SMF viewer sample CTGSMFRD) provided with the product or with a support-pack?
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

MQ Series - add support for the WebSphere MQ v.6 monitoring functions for Queues and Channels.

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ07001FContact Originator Id: bryan.alison@worldspan.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement will add support for providing statistical information related to real-time queue and channel usage, in conjunction with the local Queu...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

AD builder - Dynamic resolution of values transferred through pointers (addresses)

System: Application Discovery Client Product We want to use Application Discovery for all of our z/OS applications. Description: Application Discovery Build Client does not have support compilation for dynamic resolution of values transferred thro...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

CICS shutdown initiates phaseout of all the JVMSERVERs prior to PLTSD pgm execution.

Running under CICS TS 5.4 with WebSphere Data Interchange (WDI) which provides PLT shutdown program EDIJSTOP. However, CICS is setting the JVMSERVER status to PHASEOUT before passing control to PLTSD pgm, hence EDIJSTOP is unable to run, hence EDI...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Datetime arithmetic in data studio generated SQL

Our team uses the MDS Data Studio in Eclipse for generating reports on SMF 30 records. Reports are requested by Test Architects and therefore require us to neatly export them with the "Export..." feature. However, the SQL that gets generated in MD...
over 5 years ago in IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS (IzODA) / Mainframe Data Service 0 Future consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add copy and/or export capability to search results in CICS Explorer

When performing a search in CICS Explorer (with the CICS Configuration Manager plug-in) to find a group in multiple configurations, there is no way to access the results in the "Search Results" windows either by copying or exporting the results.
over 5 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 0 Future consideration

Control Elements for CICS

Control Elements for CICS.we would like AGGSCDS sharing across CICS region on the same LPAR / override the date at the CICS started task level (similar to ATF)It needs to be able to retain date/time overrides when the region cycles. It needs to be...
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Future consideration

TACM product enhancement request

Hi, I would like to request and product enhancement to TACM. We are running on TACM V2.5. Please ask the TACM development team if they can build a monitoring/display/alert via the 3270 session for TACM, to monitor free space on a volume where a IC...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Implement gRPC / Protocol Buffers for native support (C/C++ interface) in zTPF

We would like to make use of a streaming network protocol such as gRPC / Protocol Buffers. Currently we running into to issues with blocking protocols such as HTTP/S. We are looking at using gRPC under Java on zTPF but concerned with the performan...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration