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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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Flexible Alignment Storage Display

Currently FA aligns its storage display at starting addresses which are multiples of 16. This is often unconvenient: Sometimes application data is not properly aligned: - address pointers not on word boundery are not point-and-shootable - bad alig...
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Provide sample members for user command exits to execute parallel to existing command exits.

I have found during testing of command exits that offloading some of the work to a local autotask executing a local exec greatly improves customer/operator experience. To closely relate the IBM default exit with the local exec executing in paralle...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Better Support of WMQ-Applications

Currently Fault Analyzer does not properly recognize that an abending Batch-Job or CICS transaction is connected to Websphere MQ. In these cases FA does not show any information related to MQ and last MQ-API calls.This flaw seems to arise when the...
over 9 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

provide EXPRTIME feature for fastpath like available in full function

fastpath message are not expiring in the queue, will stay until processed. In some problem situations the messages will fill up the queue (max trans reached) and prevent other messages from being added to the queue. At this point we were having al...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration

make the MNFREQ parameter available for threadsafe environnement

We have application long running transactions executing on L8 TCB We noticed that MNFREQ parameter doesn't work for these kind of transactions So we would like not to wait the end of the CICS session to have a performance records written for these...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support for CICSPlex SM (CPSM) Repository definitions

Support for CICSPlex SM (CPSM) Repository definitions as some customers do not use the traditional CSD definitions.
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

add <RTO> TRAP into delay debug profile

currently there is no RTO support in delayed debug profile - but there are scenarios where it would be very helpful to have this support available
about 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Online load of File system files should be logged by PFS

Since z/TPF software development and version control requires a non-z/TPF platform there is a requirement to maintain on that software development platform a list of programs (and versions) loaded on the z/TPF system.Before TPF41 APAR PJ25880, whi...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer – Freeform View Data Field Calculations

We would like the ability to take the Data Field(s) from any View and perform user selected Data Calculations
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

client ipadr provided with EXCI

We would like to have the client IP adr when running CTG on z/OS with EXCI connexions to CICS
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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