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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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CICS intraregion JVM Server balancing

CICS should provide with a built-in intraregion JVM Server balancing mechanism to improve CICS Java applications availability
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 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

Remove keyword ICLH from dumps

Remove keyword ICLD (CLH block management tables) from the dumps to reduce the size.
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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...
almost 8 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...
almost 8 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?
almost 8 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

TPFDF Cruise Verify should give number of items per Lrec Id

Today the CRUISE VERIFY utility gives the total number of ITEMS.We would appreciate to have also the number of items for each Lrec id.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Future 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

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 .
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration