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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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Additional option on ZMQSC DISP QL-* CURDEPTH to limit display

On our system there are 84 local MQ queues defined, of these only a few will have messages queued but to identify these requires a display that shows all queue counts: "ZMQSC DISP QL-* CURDEPTH " An additional "THRESHOLD-1" parameter should be imp...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

DS8K - Individual Accountability (SYS5006)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 1 Future consideration

None information is provided when a storage issue happens in a file which has been excluded according to the product rules.

In a scenario where a DSN is not marked as to be managed by TAAM (it is excluded), there is no message in the joblog that informs about the exclusion. Therefore the user does not know if the problem happens in SMS or it is because TAAM is not inst...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Leverage VRSX for source dataset management

Tape Optimizer allows for the immediate expiration of source volumes after a successful copy or altering the expiration date to allow for modification of the original retention. When the expiration date is modified it may not have the desired effe...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Support for Outbound Web services

Requirement received from the BoC customer visit during Q3, 2013. BoC would like the ability to invoke a Web service from within a TXSeries application.
about 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add ERASE/NOERASE support to AAM

Client requires the ability to force NOERASE on VSAM allocations to insure HSM can perform normal migration processing.
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Use ECB Resource Monitor to prevent input list shutdown

Create two new resources that the ECB Resource monitor will follow only when the system is in input list shutdown:.1) CPU milliseconds used since the input list shutdown condition2) Number of VFA accesses since the input list shutdown condition.Wh...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Future consideration

Allow AAM to override/set secondary allocation based on primary

When migration from alternative products to AAM we sometimes encounter the situation where the existing product overrides a secondary allocation based on the value of the primary allocation. AAM can increase, deccrease and add secondary allocation...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Extract To function should not be tightly coupled to CARMA view and MVS subproject

The "Extract To" function is a neat feature that allow developers to associate program modules to the CARMA source control (Endevor in our case). However, this function is so tightly coupled that it severely limits its usage. 1) It ties to a parti...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

Outline possibility to hide procedure constructs ie. do, select and other?

From RDz 8.5 the outline view has been enhanced greatly, including a-z ordering, hide of different parts of the outline content(includes, labels etc.) however their exists no functionality which can hide the "program structures" elements. Looking ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Future consideration

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