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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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TOS client and server should support IPv6

The Government is under a mandate to convert all systems and products to IPv6 networking, as IPv6 offers more capability and security. Eventually the government will remove IPv4 traffic thereby eliminating dual-stack requirements.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Defect - OPTIMIZE (1) can generate non traceable code

Under certain circumstances, OPTIMIZE(1) and NOTEST options can generate a code that can not be traced under debugger (third party debugers : CPW, M4).
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Limit the use of the ALL parameter for certain IMS type 2 commands.

Limit the use of the ALL parameter for certain IMS type 2 commands.
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 4 Not under consideration

Relative Date Offset

Hourglass currently supports relative year offset using Yxdd where x=P for plus and M for minus and dd= number of years to offset. Please add support for relative day offset.You could use something like Dxdddd where x=P or M and dddd is the number...
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Recoup Phase 5 use of the RTL tape

Recoup phase 5 (ZRECP DUMP entry) writes all lost and erroneously available file pool records to the current real-time logging tape (RTA or RTL). Can the recoup phase 5 process be changed to write to a different tape thats only used for recoup? HP...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

TACM product enhancement request

Hi, I would like to request and product enhancement to TACM. We are running on TACM V2.5. Please ask the TACM development team if they can build a monitoring/display/alert via the 3270 session for TACM, to monitor free space on a volume where a IC...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

PL/1 program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications even in production environments.The output from PL/1 programs with PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Ter...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Using symbolics in DTSU files

Just wondering if we could use symbolics on the DTSU panel. It would be helpful for testing here and imagine the customer would like it too. That way they wouldn't have to change their DTSU files as much on release changes. It would save us and th...
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

ITS

Customer's EGL project will translate EGL program into Java program running on WAS server and COBOL program running on CICS. If the Java program and COBOL program have the different parmForm type (COMMPTR and CHANNEL), in some special cases, it wi...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

ZVFAC USAGE to show files and finds rather than simply accesses

The ZVFAC USAGE display gives total accesses which includes both find and file activity, for more clarity the display could be enhanced to show separate totals for file and find type accesses.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 8 Not under consideration

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