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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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Alternative MAXDUMPT control for manual dumps

MAXDUMPT introduced by PJ46025 does not apply to catastrophic dumps but does apply to manual dumps. Taking manual dumps is usually a planned activity and likely the content is required/or possibly required.We would be told if a manual dump was tru...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF Geographically Dispersed Processing for High Availability

Multiple z/TPF Customers; Citibank, SABRE, Marriott, Amex, and TVPT, desire an implementation of z/TPF where at least two geographically dispersed z/TPF Loosely Coupled Computing Cluster (LCCC) Systems may cooperatively process against the same da...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enhanced eventing API

Customer is looking for z/TPF to be enhanced to support some sort of external interface that allows the current ECB to exceed MAXEVENTS.  Conceptually, the current ECB should be able to call some restricted external API that gives it the priv...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Adding a timeout feature in IDz

We have developers reporting that when a program is in edit mode then the component will show up as locked. There are several times, devs forgot to close the programs and the releases cannot be deployed unless the devs go in IDz and close the prog...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Stop counting HSC closed by remote server as an error or provide a separate counter.

Today if a HSC endpoint is using persistent SSL sockets, and the remote server closes the socket it can cause the error count to be incremented. This is noticeable when the remote system implements an inactivity timeout on the socket, and there is...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add an option to allow APA to identify areas in foreign address spaces

In our shop, IMS and CICS run as JOBs, as opposed to Started tasks, and when capturing APAs for IMS Dependent Regions, areas that are in the IMS CTL or DLISAS cannot be identified by APA, showing as "Unresolved Addresses". Add a customizable optio...
about 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update Synchronise process to advise the status of each stage and clearly highlight any failures rather than just having them hidden in the middle of the logs

This will be useful as it will provide a single location to identify if any parts of the synchronise process has failed. It will be of benefit to anyone who uses the synchronise process as it will enable either manual or automatic checking of the ...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Omegamon agent disconnects from Linux HTEMS often

Our mainframe Omegamon agent disconnects from Linux HTEMS often. Please see if IBM can provide the solution to prevent this error. We want to setup the automation to track the case and send message to support team, but KDS9142I message shows up fr...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Automatic mechanism to get programs started when any CICS region initializes

We would like a feature that could run a program in any CICS region during initialization. This could be implemented such that an application makes a request to a CICS service to define a program and library and they would be started every time CI...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Do not require password if client certificate provided for PCOMM-FTP

When a client certificate is used (like a PIV/CAC card) for identification to the FTP server then the client should not request a userid or password. The SSL/TLS session is done prior to the credentials and the server could determine the ID to ass...
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration