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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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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...
almost 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

Connecting to PostgreSQL-database

Currently, RBD only supports database connections to DB2, Derby, Informix, Oracle and SQL Server. Other database providers (which also have JDBC-drivers) are not supported. We want to be able to connect to a PostgreSQL-database.
over 5 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 1 Planned for future release

equest nature/scope is to update GDPS so that falsely generate GEO558I event does not trigger FREEZE

Performing other testing which produced a message id of GEO550I caused a freeze to occur. As this was not the actual GEO550I the text was not the actual issue. It appears that other message ID's could also cause similar executions.
over 5 years ago in GDPS 0 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 ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Set correlation from user to printer to grant confidential information using HOD printer emulation sessions

We need to introduce multifunctional printers with user login. This printers, with specific configuration set with printer server and active directory, permit to centralize printers and divide the prints by single users. This is not possible with ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Zoom in context from zAware to IOAz timeframe mismatch

Zoom navigation to IOAz from a selected message in a zAware anomaly interval fails to find the selected syslog message. zAware passes UTC time in the search parameters. IOAz searches on the time setting selected by the user, typically browser work...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Planned for future release

Add additional IDAA fields to transaction information

Please add new fields for the number of create, drop, open, commit, and rollback statements a transaction performed in the following tables: DB2_USER_TRAN_H/D/WDB2_TRANSACTION_D/WA_DB2_USERTRAN_IA_DB2_UT_IDAA_I Each field is from the DB2 accountin...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Provide ability to aggregate RMF-based data (e.g. CPU, IO, Memory etc. tables) into Weekly and/or Monthly trend tables

Need ability to create aggregation tables for RMF-based data for longer term trending. For example, create MVSPM_DEVICE_W, MVSPM_DEVICE_M tables for Device activity; simillarly for MVSPM_LCU_IO_H, MVSPM_CHANNEL_H, MVS_PAGING_H, MVSPM_VS_$$$$$_H, M...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

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