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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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z/TPF support for Link Time Optimization

GCC compiler support for Link Time Optimization was announced in October 2014. We would like to utilize that support to improve run-time performance of TPF applications writen in C/C++.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Allow HourGlass to accept a Date a number of days ahead or back

Hourglass allows you to specify a date plus or minus a number of years from the current date.I need to have this ability to specify a date plus (or minus) a number of days, this number should be 3 digits to allow for upto a year (although 999 woul...
about 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add new WTOPC User Exit to allow special WTOPC SVC monitoring

Require a WTOPC CP cedi.cpy User Exit to monitor WTOPC's issued at high rates. User exit must be called with the WTOPC Reconstructed Plist area completed.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Can CUZ#EXPR be changed so it only produces reports and doesn't delete anything

CUZ#EXPR is run to delete expired backups from the repository and cloud service(s). I would be nice if there were an option available to allow it to produce the reports of what will be deleted without actually doing the deletes. The reports can th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CA7 - AD to support the CA7 ARF facility (conditional triggers using scripts)

AD currently does not support the CA7 ARF Facility in it's batch flow analysis. (conditional triggers using scripts)The team has been discussing / reviewing this ask with IBM partners - Luci P, Gord P, Rami Katan. 'Apr 16 - had meeting with IBM de...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

ADDI - Support CA7 Event based triggering

AD currently does not recognize CA7 Event Job Scheduling in it's batch flow analysis. The team has been discussing / reviewing this ask with IBM partners - Luci P, Gord P, Rami Katan; 'Apr 16 - had meeting with IBM dev team, Further discussions ha...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Report an error when 'GENERATED_XML_DATA' is passed not supported hex values

The reply data from the business application, if it contains like x'05' the process ‘GENERATED_XML_DATA' does not return the business data in the output part nor is an error reported.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

CICS should support Product Registration via IFAPRDXX

Customer would like to disable or enable CICS/TS execution on a specific LPAR using IFAPRDXX
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic timeout value CICS Web Service

Pass timeout value to pipeline dynamically to control the time max used to conduct the business application part of the web service. (dtimeout)
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Insertion de liens hypertextes dans les Design RPP

Nous souhaiterions avoir la possibilit? de pouvoir ins?rer des liens hypertextes dans les fiches de Design RPP (par exemple dans les commentaires) afin de pouvoir associer des informations externes
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration