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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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Move WGTA tables above the 2g Bar

Request is to move the WGTA tables above the 2g bar in order to free up valuable space below the BAR Current allocation is 1.4 million entries today .
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Not under consideration

Internally Indexed RDS Tables within SAzOS

The Systems Automation(SAzOS) tool would greatly benefit from being able to support Table data that is Internally Indexed. Currently the CREATE sub-function within INGRDS does not support creating tables that are internally indexed. There needs to...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

XLF: Compiler should detect and isolate the source of non-conforming Openmp code using local pointers for data maps.

SalesForce Case: TS001878905PMR: 80808,227,000 The use case reproducer for this issue is an OpenMP Fortran implementation that uses local, temporary pointers to do data mapping. The implementation does not conform to the OpenMP spec but the compil...
over 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE should provide a command line entry to run a VERIFY function without naming a table

CRUISE should provide a command line entry to run a VERIFY function without having to set up a table for this purpose. Currently every CRUISE function requires a table be created first. The VERIFY could kick off as soon as the entry is made, or it...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Include MQ as subsystem in zd&t capture tool

The tool now contains subsystem capture, currently only CICS & DB2 are defined MQ would be a great addition.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE logs should include the list of tape volumes created or used by a parameter table

CRUISE should include a list of capture tape volumes created by a Capture or restored by a parameter table. Currenlty, no log or record is kept of the tape volumes generated during the capture. The information has to be obtained from the console l...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Catalog IMS - JCL/BMP/PSB

We would like to have one additional information in the IMS catalog: the link between the name of JCLLIB, the JCL jobname and the PSB used by the BMP.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Use of "Bypass extent checking function " for DEDB Access to improve performance under many parallel I/Os on the same AREA

Our customer's systems are experiencing lock timeout issues and have seen DASD response times increase during certain times of high transaction rates.About over 100 FP areas from each of the three data sharers have been consolidated and updated wi...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 29 Future consideration

XLF: Support for Fortran 2008 feature move_alloc

The feature is described in section "5.3 Allocatable components of recursive type" from the Fortran 2008 summary document available at https://wg5-fortran.org/N1801-N1850/N1828.pdf and appended here: A recursive type is permitted to be based on al...
over 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / Fortran 1 Planned for future release

XL: Support linking objects compiled with clang++ and xlc or xlf that use OpenMP GPU offloading

SalesForce Case TS001968579PMR 82483,227,000 XLF compiler: Errors linking objects compiled with clang++ and xlc or xlf that use OpenMP GPU offloading. LLNL is having problems linking objects that were compiled using the clang++ (LLVM) and XLF (or ...
over 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration

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