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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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Track the number of heap requests and releases for AVL1-5 per ECB

Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of ECB heap requests (malloc/calloc/ralloc) for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of releases of ECB heap for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add the new counters to ZMOWN.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Planned for future release

PCOMM Certificate Error Override

An option is available in the pcswin.ini file:[Security]PassthroughCertValidation=Y This allows PCOMM to connect to z/OS hosts where certificates are not trusted. However, it also generates a warning popup dialog that the user must respond to befo...
over 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Planned for future release

HOD 655 error for VT display session during report generation for 5 minutes or more

we cannot use HOD to perform our Business-related functions due to reverting back to the logon screen when generating reports.
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

PCOMM Data transfert dialog to remove button which allows to swap from receive to send mode

We want to block under PCOMM the sending of data from the workstation to our AS400 for security reasonsWe want to keep the extractions of the AS400 to the workstation by the reception optionWe have disabled the sending of data in the menus of the ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

Italian Customer is interested to navigate into APA reports using a Brower as interface.

I visited this week SIA Customer (Leader in Banking Services based in Milan : https://www.sia.eu/Engine/RAServePG.php/P/261610010101/L/1 with branches in Belgian, Dutch, Europe ..). They are very interested to APA and FA, to complete the PD tool s...
almost 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

CTG certificate parm

Create a CTG certificate parm to point to a specific digital certificate stored on a RACF keyring
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 1 Planned for future release

We have a concern that it seems to be an architectural design limit to PDSEs that they will not extend beyond one volume.Need

Hi Team, We have a concern that it seems to be an architectural design limit to PDSEs that they will not extend beyond one volume.Need to know if this is actually the case.If it is, then is there a way to allow them extend beyond one volume. Or an...
about 5 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Planned for future release

HACP EE support for Modifying session properties dynamically

See email.
about 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 1 Planned for future release

XLF: Support for Fortran 2008 feature move_alloc

The feature is described in section "5.3 Allocatable components of recursive type" from the Fortran 2008 summary document available at https://wg5-fortran.org/N1801-N1850/N1828.pdf and appended here: A recursive type is permitted to be based on al...
over 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 1 Planned for future release

RKANDATV - permanent updates to KxxATR and KxxCAT members

Dear Sirs: RTE libs usually are placed on target volumes in our systems. These files should not be updated by the application after installation processs has been finished. To demarcate real RTE libs, log datasets and parm libs from each other we ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Planned for future release

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