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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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zUnit Test case can handle DBCS data item names

COBOL programs using DBCS identifiers cannot be applied to current implementation of zUnit, because test case sheet created by zUnit cannot handles data item identifiers with DBCS characters.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Lrec ID data collection

TPFDF needs to collect statistics on the access/updates by Lrec id for a given file. These stats do not need to be collected for all files.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future consideration

Add enhancement to Adv Catalog Manager

Request For Enhancement to Tivoli Adv Catalog Mgnt 2.4 . Problem description This is not a problem but a Request For Enhancement (RFE) to Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS v2.4. Currently, the Advanced Catalog Management product has a ca...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

TABR - Capture retention date for tape backups

In the TABR reporting it dose not report on how long the backups will exists. It will be great to have a feature that captures the retention period for tape datasets to allow the user to understand how long the backup will be retained.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance DSNJ110E automation

IBM supplies special hard-coded processing for DB2 message DSNJ110E in ISSUEACT(AOFRSGCR), but it is limited to checking for a single threshold in DB2 CTL policy. My solution:Remove special DSNJ110E processing from AOFRSGCR.Add pre-defined DSNJ110...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

DFHSM Multi-Cluster enhancement

DFHSM multi-cluster for the MCDS currently uses key ranges that are associated to datasets on the system. I would like an enhancement to be developed in which DFHSM puts some type of dummy marker at the beginning and end of the additional clusters...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

I would like to have a data base for dumps so we can issue a command to list a data sets for restore from full volume dum

I would like build a data base concept for dumps. hsend list dsname('T.VND.PR.CAP.DXCOMC.G0015V00') both term
about 6 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Future consideration

Support 4K RSA Encryption/Decryption via Crypto

The Dept. of Treasury is requiring us to adopt stronger security standards, such as using >2K public/private RSA keys, specifically, 3K or 4K keys. The issue is performance-related (CPU). The z/TPF OS has only put in support to call the crypto ...
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

zospt job support

Our Cics Regions run not as started tasks, but as jobs. We would need to create jobs instead of started tasks.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Other 0 Future consideration

CTCz Status check function

It is too difficult to check the status of some components on Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS. 1) Cloud Servers StatusThere is no way to check this status except ISPF panel. Please add OS command to check this status and OS message which show the st...
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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