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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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Better charts

Hi,we need as soon as possible some better line, column and bar charts like this: http://canvasjs.com/editor/?id=http://canvasjs.com/example/gallery/line/site_traffic/ http://canvasjs.com/editor/?id=http://canvasjs.com/example/gallery/column/oil_r...
over 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

CTG must provide support for Muli-Factor Authentication (MFA)

In order to achieve wide-spread adoption of MFA in our mainframe environment, CTG must support MFA. The vast majority of our end-user community uses CTG to perform their day-to-day work. Without CTG support for MFA, MFA adoption will only be avail...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Data Stream for SMF249 from DVM

The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Planned for future release

HATS Connection terminatio

HATS Connection Termination feature request
over 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

ZD&T V13+ - Organized/Systematic zOS Shutdown & IPL

ZDT Tools clean z/OS Shutdown & re-IPL
over 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Planned for future release

Command Line Parameter to Specify Settings Instead of Saved Session

We need a way to specify starting a session by specifying parameters instead of a saved session.
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 7 Planned for future release

Enhance Data Collection Metrics on Preallocated ECB heap and application stack

Expanding preallocated heap and appplication stack storage can consume signficiant memory since the increase applies to all allocated ECBs. We need more metrics to understand the distribution of prealloacted heap/application stack usage by ECBs th...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 1 Planned for future release

changing the console log files destination directory

EPO needs to write console log messages in a specific directory in a /log File System with enough space and not in the /var TXSeries region directory.
over 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Getting LFAREA Statistics with TDS

As APAR OA48913 for RMF , could it be possible to map SMF 7x and create tables in order to collect information about large memory frames (LFAREA) usage. Is there any possibility to add some tables within the MVSPM component?
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

z/TPF ETIM System Profiler enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance ETIM System Profiler report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions by I-Stream such as: i. Compression i. Compression ii. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP ii...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release