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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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Alow Editing/Viewing of Customized Data Stream Definitions for CDPz

There is no interface to View/Edit Customized Data Stream Definitions after creating them which is ridiculous. I would have to start from scratach to correct or update user Customized definitions. Why provide an interface to allow for customized d...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

SCTP (stream control transmission protocol) support for zTPF

our member endpoint platforms and CISCO equipment in the network currently support SCTP. They feel this protocol would make the network more resilient to carrier issues to endpoint connections. They are currently performing a POC with SCTP connect...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

RDz FM currently doesn't have capability to display c++ source method names on load/dll compares in addition to the csect nam

We are looking for a way to have file manager be able to display c++ source method names on load/dll compares in addition to the csect name. Currently we have files in omvs that show this cross reference of csect to source name, but we would be op...
almost 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Using CPACF with HW built-In instructions

ISV likes to use HW Crypto support of CPACF (see Principles of Operation) in their applications running on z/OS. As of requiremts of their architecture and as of performance reasons, they do not use ICSF. So they have to use the CPACF instructions...
almost 10 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 7 Not under consideration

CMCI to allow multiple connections

We have 50 CICS regions in our system, and we do not have CICSPlex installed. There is no demand for CICSPlex. Hence, I use CMCI in CICS Explorer to connect to each CICS region individually. .This RFE is to allow more than one CMCI connection (at ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

DFHFC7084 issued when CICS resyncs to CFDT

This REQ is being raised by CICS L3 Service who actually took an apar for this problem for further investigative work but eventually deemed it to be beyond the scope of an apar fix. Basically, CICS is interfacing with a CFDT Server and an inflight...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS START ATTACH more general

An EXEC CICS START ATTACH command can only be executed as a non-terminal-request. There is a need for a terminal oriented (single threaded) START command that is executed immediately. A START command with TERMINAL is only executed every 256 millis...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud Support Case CS1112453

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almost 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IDMS Record name is ignored during build

The idea is that AD takes into account the name of the IDMS record and modules (source) during its parsing (as it does for programs and JCLs) instead of the component name (which is a renaming under MVS...)
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Sync TPF File System tables in loosely coupled systems

We cleaned up the tpf file system in one of our sabre systems and noticed other processors didn't reflect the update with a ZFILE df -aic entry. I submitted a case (TS003005946) with the following response: The numbers for these values sync up ove...
almost 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

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