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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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Real-time syntax check should flag obvious syntax errors

Currently, the real time syntax does not flag the error in the statement IF VAR1 > 0 ELSE <--- ADD 1 TO VAR1. The compiler does not accept this and issues messageIGYPS2079-S Expected a verb or "NEXT SENTENCE", but found "ELSE". The statement...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Future consideration

mask password on ZKEYS BACKUP/RESTORE/VALIDATE

ZKEYS BACKUP/RESTORE/VALIDATE password not masked on the CSMP0099I echoed response. Please update CVAU and CKYZ to do this just like was done for ZKEYS PASSWORD. Thanks
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

PFI0510-1340 CTG CICS and IMS health status in sysplex distributor

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: scherwajSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: PFI0510-1340 CTG CICS and IMS health status in sysplex distributorHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Core TechnologyCurrent St...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Continuous Data Collection Enhancements

For the Continuous Data Collection Tivoli tool, we would like the following metrics added to the CDC SYSTEM tab:Mils/MsgPathlengthService Time
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

DWC Allow Sort Fields To Be Saved

When you use the DWC and create you custom views you cannot save your sort field options and have to enter this over and over again.
about 10 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Make SA messages or at least message help, more operator friendly. In this case I refer specifically to threshold messages.

Some SA messages tend to be cryptic for the operator. One of two things occur when the message and/or online help is not detailed enough.1. Emails are sent to the operators to update their documentation to explain what to do, which is redundant wi...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

RDz gets ICH408I message printed in the syslog on CARMA connect attempt try to write /u/sys/RSED/.profile

ICH408I message printed in the syslog everytime a user connect to CARMA. It seems it and request was denied due to insufficient authority. Administrators may notice that every time we connect thru CARMA, there are messages similar to these in the ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Future consideration

Provide dataset allocation factor to TAAM for z/OS

UBISS is a CA ALLOCATE user. We want to substitute it with our TAAM and we need to match the following functionality .CA Allocate has a function that allows to allocate a dataset starting from the characteristics and definitions of another existin...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 2 Future consideration

refreshing CICS TG web services in a Gateway

We may be using CTG in a high availability application shortly. It appears that, at present, to refresh CICS TG web services, the Gateway daemon needs to be restarted to pick up any changes. A refresh command should be added to remove the need to ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

INGINFO Number of history lines ?/SYS/? resources should be customizable

We start to use ihe INGSTX command to update user-defined status items. These updates generates lot of HSAL6181I messages to been seen in INGINFO Resource => MVSJ/SYS/MVSJ History : 2014-10-13 11:10:38 Status Item Update HSAL6181I Variable attr...
over 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

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