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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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Create a facility to add jobs to the CP via call from a non-APF-authorized program

Need to be able to add a job to the current plan via a call from a running application program. This program may be IMS MPP, IMS BMP, CICS, etc. The interface CANNOT require APF authorization, as ordinary application programs should not be APF aut...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Provide open include / copybook on preprocessed files

For customers with heavy usage of macros, IDZ provides the option to use the preprocessor integration feature to enable the editor tooling. When a customer processes the file and also resolves the includes / copybooks, the developer misses the fea...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Suppress conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options

The conflict between the DYNAM and CICS options could be resolved by implicitly introducing a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE STATIC" before "EXEC CICS" and a compilation directive ">>CALLINTERFACE" after the "END-EXEC" clause. ...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Improving z/OS Connect resilience

To wrap outbound API calls with Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead patterns provided by Liberty mpFaultTolerance-2.0 feature
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect AT-TLS Aware/Controlling

z/OS Connect as AT-TLS Aware or Controlling. This allows z/OS Connect to use APIs of the IBM Communications Server. Features are not limited to but can include inquiring attributes of certificates passed during the SSL/TLS handshake.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

FARF6 fixed file for traditional TPF databases

Most of our databases are zTPFDF. Our database growth is primarily FARF6. Our pools control records are FARF5. With each pool gen we must increase the various pools control records allocations, requiring additional UFT/FTI5 pairs. We are exhaustin...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

SAVE AS in MFS editor will not save to remote system

SAVE AS - customer opens remote MFS file in a PDS. He does a File -> SAVE AS and gets a UI to choose the location of the save. None of the choices are the remote zOS connections. The only choices are local. However, performing the same action i...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Count number of calls of csects/subroutine/entry point - No 2

It's important to know how often a csect / subroutine / entry point is called so that you can differenciate if you spend a long time in a single csect / subroutine / entry point or visited several times. We want to know the number of calls of a sp...
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Digital - default range machine for enhanced signal producing device for water splitting

Digital default machine-device for enhanced signal producing device with inbuilt provision in cars for water splitting feature supported by small size quantum battery with automatic on / off facility
11 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Abends in the Software due to Deadlocks, Buffer full, etc.

When the product abends manual intervention is required to restart it. This requires support staff to determine the cause and restart the task. It also requires that a case be opened that your staff has to review and respond it, wasting time, then...
11 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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