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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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threshold on taskcnt for profiling report

I'm using profiling report. But analyzing performance on a small value of taskcnt is not significantI would like to set a "threshold" for a taskcnt value to exclude small activity from analyzis
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

snapc and wtopc baseless

Customer is asking that both the snapc and wtopc macro be made baseless to support application that are being written with baseless in mind. Here's an example of an application error.00001364 28768+ DS 0H Align @411.074 01-SNAPC00001364 AF02 0000 ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

ECBRM to limit z/TPF File System INODE usages

We have a limited number of #INODE blocks in the system. A run-away ECB may try to create thousands of files, in a relatively short time period, on File System directories up to the point where INODE shortage can cripple all others interacting wit...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 7 Not under consideration

To allow Windows Authentication in ADDI for SQL server

Hello Team, We are using Windows account to login into our servers and our SQL server for AD resides in different windows server.So to communicate between different application server we use windows authentication (which is mixed authentication mo...
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Maintain good compression ratio for insert after load in BLU automatcially without unload and reload

We usually insert data to the same table daily and may be housekeep data from the table daily after retention period.Update will be less frequent but we found that update in column-organized table takes very long time due to the insert+delete oper...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

ZUDFM entry do display program/relation...

Our RECOUP procedure includes a "ZRBKD DISP ALL" entry to have a view of our descriptors in the TPF log, but today most of our databases use DBDEF instead of RECOUP descriptor. We would appreciate an entry like "ZUDFM DEF REC" which combines ZUDFM...
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Extend the Impact Report to allow starting from a 'File'

The impact report starting from the variable used in a READ statement does not show any link to the variable associated with the file in FILE SECTION. The impact report contains only direct data transfers between variables.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Android navigation key is not supported (Recent Apps key)

Recent Apps key is not supported since this is not part of the application under test.
over 10 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 3 Not under consideration

Provide ISPF option to display active RULEDEFS with line match data for debug

Advanced Allocation Management provides an ISPF option to display the contents of the current RULEDEFS member. Since the product RULEDEFS can be dynamically refreshed it would also be good to be able to display the current actual rule definitions ...
about 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Issue with REPORT SECTION

We are migrating Micro focus COBOL programs to IBM COBOL for my client(shop direct). I am trying to compile one of the program using IBM COBOL compiler,but getting below errors. it seems to me that AIX COBOL does not support REPORT SECTION. Could ...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration