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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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Allow system symbols in started task parameters

Please allow system symbols in all parameters for the decision support started tasks.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

Enhance ZRECP DISPLAY LOST and ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON

TPFUG_Req_Number: D13010ORIGIN DATE: April 22,2013REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT : Enhance ZRECP DISPLAY LOST and ZRECP DISPLAY ERRON to support a PGM parameter and a SKIP parameter. REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION : Provide a functional entry that will display los...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ZD&T should allow to keep the extracted files on local or NAS drive

ZD&T IDE tool set provide option to copy files in FTP storage but In our case we just copy the files in to different drive on the same server. If you could include the capabilities to copy to different local drive /NAS drive that would help us.
about 7 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Omegamon WTO messaging

Be able to send zOSWTO messages to a specific LPAR in a SYSPLEX.
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

FTP and MFA

With the growing use of MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) now when anyone need to perform a FTP from a zOS server A to another zOS Server B, instead of inform the pswd at zOS Server B is need to open a browse and get the B's token at https://serve...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

TS Queue - Logstash offload

In PL/1 we have the problem, that people make "put skip list/data)" and everything is spaming the CEEMSG. Now we want to introduce a PL/1 subroutine equal to log4j, Moving all the output to a TS-QUEUE. It would be great to have the possibility to ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Compiler option to eliminate ZAP instructions that fix the sign on zero results

In the case of a packed decimal overflow, the result may be a negative zero. The compiler generates a ZAP instruction to make these potential negative zeros into positive zeros. In compute intensive applications, this can lead to a lot of ZAP inst...
almost 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Including program name and other information in the StartStop message information for Debug Tool for z/OS

As the developers adopt Debug Tool as their development tool for debugging applications and collecting code coverage information, it is important to have the accounting information about who is using the tool, as well as which programs they are wo...
about 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IMS auto-resume connection at warm start

- new feature:IMS automatically reconnects an IMS-DB2 connection regardless of the latest connection status at IMS shutdown, if introdiced and specified a new parameter like "FORCERECONNECT=YES".- present work:If IMS-DB2 connection was not active ...
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Display removed DB, after cmd CHANGE.SUBSYS ABNORMAL

1:display removed DB after enter CHANGE.SUBSYS ABNORMAL cmd. 2:display warning msg after CHANGE.SUBSYS NORMAL cmd for removed DB.3:display warning msg after LIST.SUB cmd for removed DB.
about 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

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