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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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(TPFUG/Visa) Need a reliable means to identify all tapes associated with a given dump

If a dump spans more than one tape, you must include all tape numbers on the dump post processing request to obtain the complete dump. If you do not include all tape numbers, the post processing will complete with abend code 2999. Although a tape ...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

improved monitoring: more messages and quicker

current monitoring does not show all errors, and sometimes shows errors that have been corrected. Monitoring should also be quicker - status of compute nodes should have enough priority to show problems in near-real-time.
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Support for storage upgrade /storage HA

1) to support Citi’s plan to upgrade storage systems; 2) to support Citi’s plan to implment storage HA solution (which is in discussion)
12 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 2 Needs more information

View paths to sources

The IP addresses of the machine, where the sources are stored, are currently visible to users, for example in reports (inventory), usages and in the Eclipse window "Properties" for projects or resources (programs, copy...). This information is not...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

Expand the Variable usage filter with the content of the variable

Currently, only the variable name and / or the program can be specified as a criterion via the usage variable. The result set can be very extensive when querying variables across several AD projects and therefore the viewing for the user can also ...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Add Name-Value Pair (NVP) area to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger

We'd like the Name-Value Pair (NVP) area added to the Dumps captured in the file system for the z/TPF Debugger because with increased use of Name-Value Pairs for saving information useful in Troubleshooting and for Realtime Runtime Metrics Collect...
12 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

zCEE Add custom header in request pre-invoke interceptor

We were looking at having the preinvoke request interceptor ADD a new custom header to the flow, that would contain the value of System.currentTimeMillis(); it could contain other values as well for future needs. On the post invoke; read the heade...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Copy row when editing DB2 table

Add a copy/repeat function to copy an existing row in a table when using the Data perspective to edit a table. Suggestion: Right-clicking on a row and have the option to Copy row.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

CLIST

Support CLIST
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ZUnit: Support for TYPES LOB (BLOB, CLOB...)

Support of fields with SQL types LOB (BLOB, CLOB...) .Example: 10 'A'-TXT-NACHM-GRND USAGE SQL TYPE IS XML AS CLOB(10000) OCCURS 1.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Not under consideration