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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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Protect or change behavior of RERUN on a waiting application

Rerun on a waiting application is very dangerous : all external predecessors are set to COMPLETE.2 proposals :Not allow REUN on a WAITING application, just allow it on a COMPLETE application.Or change behavior of RERUN on a waiting application to ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future 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

Enhancement to not show a echo of ZOLDR DISPLAY entries on the prime cras

Hi,This enhancement request concerns the ZOLDR DISPLAY entries. Could you please suppress the echo on the prime crass for the ZOLDR DISPLAY command ?It's just a display, safe for the system. Thank you for your cooperation. Regards,François Bodelet...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Add Scalability for DBB Cloning large Repositories.

The Clone Step executed during a DBB build seems to not scale properly with large Repositories. The seems to scale parabolically the larger the Repository. This is especially noticeable with a Repo that contains over 87,000 elements versus one tha...
almost 4 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration

DFHSTUP show only JVMSERVER state: Enabled if CICS is running in the 24H mode.

DFHSTUP shows only JVMSERVER state: Enabled if CICS is running in the 24H mode. Otherwise (e. g. if CICS was terminated before midnight) always JVMSERVER state: Disabled was listed. Even if the JVM server was active during the entire runtime of th...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

RSE connection in IDZ does not automatically detect the encoding

The RSE connection in IDZ does not automatically detect the encoding. In order to view a readable format of a .log file, it becomes necessary to identify and switch the File encoding to UTF-8 or other types.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enable CICS IA Collection regions to startup even without connection to VSAM Control Files

CICS IA collection process be modified to allow it to be started with out a connection to the VSAM files, and to retry for a specified amount of time or attempts
over 7 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Verify IBM Repository Site is available

Please create a way to verify that the http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager site is available from a browser or a script.
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Show successors "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow"

Currently the CA-7 graph will show:1. Triggered by Jobs2. It's Dependencies (before it can run), these are the Successors of other jobs3. Jobs it will triggerThe CA-7 graph does NOT show Successors
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

zimag path information

It would be useful if the zimag display could should the path information for keypoints and CIMR components that are loaded onto the z/TPF complex. The reason for the request is to get to a common image base that can be loaded/ built across multip...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

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