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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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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
almost 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.
almost 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...
almost 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...
about 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 ...
about 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...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

TAAM cambio en allocación de fichero de syntax check, permita HLQ

TAAM cambio en allocación de fichero de syntax check, permita HLQ, ya que si no, es necesario incluir en las rutinas de SMS el perfil userid.ALLOCOPT.SYNTAX
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Discrepancy for column timestamp in table DS_ACTIVITY_%

Recently we started to use the Data Set Component. Something seems strange with the column timestamp used in tables DS_ACTIVITY_%. The only timestamp collected is the one of job start time, that is from fields SMF14RSD,SMF14RST. But for a long run...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Future consideration

CRLF insertions occur at undesirable locations

A "Line Feed" control character insertion at offset 132 is occurring on printed output from TXSeries with CTG print deamon. TXSeries development team has identified the insertion is not a result from TXSeries. The insertion is a result from the CT...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 3 Future consideration

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