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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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snap dumps in dump viewer

Customer is requesting for the z /TPFdump viewer to support snap dumps. The current product that they use on TPF4.1 supports this function. What the application programmers like to see is the listc information that can be specified as part of the ...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

message when dumps are not added to dump viewer

Customer is asking for more information either a message or reason code why a dump was not added to the dump database. For example no ECB, R9 not pointing to an ECB etc.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

open file in editor JCL

application development in the JCL editors and LPEX Having the ability to edit a file from the JCL
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Remove Channel Redrive from ZSTAT ENVIRON

ZSTAT ENVIRON is displaying TPFMODE inconsistently. After some IPL's its YES and some NO.Requesting IBM fix it or remove it. IBM inclined to remove it because TPFMODE not critical for FICON.IBM needs RFE to make that change.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Most comprehensive display of window titles

When viewing an entity, the window title contains the code of the entity. However, the code is not generally understood, can you add the label of the entity for more understanding ?
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

method addition in the description of a rubric

In a description of a rubric, the addition m?thod is only doing up, which is not logical. Could you do we have append mode down ? regards,
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Enable security controls for ITOM WBV Print and Download functions

The ITOM Web Based Viewer provides the end user with a wide variety of viewing and handing options for managed content. For some clients while they want users to have web based access to ITOM managed content they also want the capability to restri...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 4 Delivered

Allow for lower retransmit timer values for zTPF sockets

We are experiencing issues with subsequent retransmissions on dropped packets when fast retransmission is not used and if the packet still does not get delivered on the first retransmission a subsequent retransmission takes 7 seconds to kick off w...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Possibility to specify the interval of automatic deletion of TSQs

Today CICS cleanup task scans the temporary storage queues in the CICS region and deletes the queues that are eligible for automatic deletion.every 30 minutes . Customer would like to have the possibility to specify this value as a SIT parameter b...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Usage of JesJobUtil (callback support)

We would like a callback mechanism when submitting JCL jobs from the Java API. It's not included in the product according to documentation: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_9.1.1/com.ibm.ftt. api.resource. doc/javadoc/reference...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Delivered