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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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Introduce FIRST volume selection option to primary space allocation

TAAM goes on evaluating volumes one by one to find out the best volume to allocate primary space for submitted Job .If a large number of volumes were needed to evaluate by TAAM, it took quite a long time . In some batch job cases took 10 to 20 min...
over 7 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Data Flow / Data Flow Hierarchy View avoidance of suppressed assignments

Assignments that occur multiple times are suppressed in the views.Important information is simply suppressed. This only confuses and leads to wrong assumptions and errors. The problem occurs in both Dataflow and Dataflow Hierarchy views See use ca...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 6 Future consideration

ZTPF TS7700 Support - ZTPLF LOAD - Optional input parm of tape name

HPE would like a new optional parameter added to the ZTPLF LOAD entry that would identify the tape name that the loaded volume will become via the follow-up entry ZTMNT.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

DFHLS2WS needs to support new COBOL standards that allow to leave out FILLERs

Newer COBOL compilers allow that FILLERs don't have to be specified explicitely any more. But these structures fail when fed into DFHLS2WS. e.g. 01 REQUEST. 10 PIC X(08). 10 FELD1 PIC X(08). 10 FILLER PIC X(08). 10 FELD2 PIC X(08).and 01 REQUEST. ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

In IBM Debugger for z/OS allow -qtrace option to collect debugger engine trace to include folder names with space

In Windows > Preferences > Run/Debug > Compiled Debug > IBM z/OS Debugger preferences, in the Additional command line options field, allow -qtrace option accept a folder name containing space.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Indicate I/O from MFS Maps

Would like to see input an output indications from an IMS MFS Map
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Reduce CDC interval frequency limit

Currently the CDC minimum collection interval is5 seconds. If this could be reduced ( perhaps to 1 second), more granular data would be available. this data would be more useful for problem diagnosis, as well as provide better tivoli monitoring au...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

More precisely SOAP fault text - Internal Server Error

If CICS receives a webservice request and a handler in the service provider pipeline initializes container DFHWS-USERID with a userID, that has been revoked by RACF, CICS returns a SOAP fault text 'Internal Server Error' to the service requester. ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Delay the commit of an IMS synchronous program switch target transaction until the original transaction performs the commit

IMS synchronous program switch can be used to synchronously call an IMS transaction from a different IMS application. This allows you to reuse existing functionality within new IMS applications without implementing it again or without copying the ...
over 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

The shift code containing a 2-byte character string is not correctly recognized on IDz

When developing a program or JCL in the IDz environment, the shift code containing a 2-byte character string is not correctly recognized and processed.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

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