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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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RDz DB2 10/11 support of Timestamp precision

RDz's COBOL Editor does not know the DB2 10/11 syntaks for DCLGEN constructs for Timestamp with precision. DB2 10 introduced TIMESTAMP with the precision from 0 - 12, where the default is 6. The COBOL editor report errors when precision is declare...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

append error/warning message from multiple maktpf/bldtpf to remote error list

when doing multiple maktpf/bldtpf actions on the same source code for different config files append the errors/warning for each maktpf/bldtpf in the remote error list. also, desire an additional column in the remote error list to add free form tex...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

Display SMF Descriptors in Historical Data records instead of just SMF record types.

Currently the HDU (Historical Data) function only shows SMF record types, which for most common actions is fine, but for less-common SMF record types requires the user to stop and look up what the record means before being able to interpret the hi...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 0 Delivered

Change Historical Data display to show just one entry per data set and allow drilldown for more detail.

Redesign display to show just one entry per data set and then allow drilldown from there to display activity for that data set.
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 0 Delivered

Leave IOPCB control block unchanged in IMS MPR region when Delay Debug is active

When debugging IMS message processing programs (MPPs), ensure that the contents of the IOPCB control block are not modified due to any Debug Tool processing. Currently, when the Delay Debug feature is active, the contents of the IOPCB are altered ...
over 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Debugger system heap view does not support gsysc token naming convention

IBM apar PJ42752 does not support system heap tokens that contain spaces. TPF Toolkit currently only supports alphanumeric characters although when defining a system heap token there is nothing in the IBM documentation about the non-use of space c...
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Delivered

HOD Thai language support with Windows Thai keyboard layout

Currently HOD client support Thai language only when Windows keyboard layout is English and HOD keyboard is Thai. So Thai customers got the following problem when using Windows Thai keyboard layout1. When Windows keyboard is Thai and HOD is Englis...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 4 Delivered

CPSA restriction on nodupl dumps .

Looping CPSA dumps can lead to system performance. This request is to remove the CPSA restriction on nodupl dumps .
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Increase read() low water mark level to be higher that 64k

With the message sizes increasing the read() low water mark level needs to be increased. This was updated to 64k with PJ41245 requesting that this value be increased further .The values are defined in cts5 as sndlowat and rcvlowat..
almost 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

zUnit - KSDS (VSAM) Support

zUnit not supports "ORGANIZATION IS INDEXED" (KSDS). Would like to request to make available this option as well, other wise we cant use this. Most of our programs are using VSAM (KSDS).
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Delivered

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