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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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Remove keyword ICLH from dumps

Remove keyword ICLD (CLH block management tables) from the dumps to reduce the size.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

z/TPF to use DHCP server to get IP addresses

Currently the ZOSAE command requires a specific IP address to be entered. This is fine for production systems, but I would like an option to use DHCP for test systems. We have hundreds of VPARS/Test TPF systems and some "home grown" software to ma...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Support for YYYDDD in date patterns

Please add support for the YYYDDD format in date patterns.
almost 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Optimize macro trace and function trace buffer allocation

Could IBM review the effect of trace buffer allocation on system performance?Currently both the macro trace and function traces are split between regular and extended buffers, so any update requires access to storage in two different cache lines.B...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Insight for zOS LOGREC

We identified that if we had zOS LOGREC mapped in an Insight for IOAZ , some occurrences of errors could be verified for take a preventive action . Recently, we had several occurrences in DB2 area where the error messages was logged ONLY in LOGREC...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1

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

Suppress SNAPC console messages

Create new ZASER and ZIDOT options to suppress SNAPC console messages.1) ZASER SNAP CONSDMP to suppress nodump msgs2) ZIDOT SNAP NOMSG prefix.error to suppress sending console messages of a particular SNAPC dump.
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SMF extract sample ALC program

ITOM should have a sample program (like they do with exit UX01) that will extract ITOM SMF records. It should reside in ITOM SBJTSAMP library. This program (ALC) should work without any changes and to execute this sample, user should just providea...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Sparse loading of one single object

We would use sparse loading to load only one object. In the case of program ; we would load only cobol, design and pdp and not all the related objects .
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

HOD DPW - Provide Option to Specify Path for Customized CA files

Provide the ability to specify the CA store where the Host On-Demand Deployment Wizard will search for certificates received on a host session. The recommended circumvention of copying the certificate to where DPW will look for it requires adminis...
over 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

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