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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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Set correlation from user to printer to grant confidential information using HOD printer emulation sessions

We need to introduce multifunctional printers with user login. This printers, with specific configuration set with printer server and active directory, permit to centralize printers and divide the prints by single users. This is not possible with ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Enhance zOLDR Enhancement to avoid zOLDR reload of Swaggers and zDFDL after loading zEV and zREST APARs

1. After loading of certain APARS associated with z/TPF Eventing Facility (zEV) and z/TPF REST API (zREST) processing it is required that Swaggers and zDFDL be reloaded using the ZOLDR. 2. Enhance zOLDR Enhancement to avoid zOLDR reload of Swagger...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MQClient Using z/TPF Priority Socket

Z/TPF has the capability to use priority TCP/IP sockets to select socket consumers. An MQ Client consumer external to a Provider z/TPF Systems needs the ability to fetch MQ messages from a local z/TPF MQ Queue while it's input list is in shut down...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ZMDES Clean Up after zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or zOLDR Delete

1. ZMDES Manage Deployment Descriptors Process requires multi-CPU/LPAR clean up after a zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or Delete. The other LPARS in the z/TPF Loosely Coupled Complex (LCC) generally do not have their tables updated until an IPL. This...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Is a defect

BPXP018I message in e3270UI (during shutdown)

During shutdown of OMEGAMON XE on z/OS e3270UI address space (TOM) message BPXP018I appears in joblog and syslog.
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance AFCI/AFCY to indicate holder of resource

Enhance the AFCI/AFCY transaction abends to indicate what task was holding the resource. This could be done by dumping (not abending) the holding task or at least producing a message showing what the holding task was.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) - Greater Permission Granularity

Currently the CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) rules are limited with respect to CPSM WLM Resource Administration. The OPERATE CPSM ESM group already allows you to break access down by Type (ie: CONNECT, PROGRAM, etc.) The use case below, contains an e...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to use transaction isolation with the DFHMIRS program

The DFHMIRS program that carries out the request is defined with an EXECKEY of CICS. A CICS-key program has read and write access to CICS-key and user-key storage of its own task and all other tasks, whether or not traniso is active.In summary, th...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhance DSNJ110E automation

IBM supplies special hard-coded processing for DB2 message DSNJ110E in ISSUEACT(AOFRSGCR), but it is limited to checking for a single threshold in DB2 CTL policy. My solution:Remove special DSNJ110E processing from AOFRSGCR.Add pre-defined DSNJ110...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Provide a customizable HourGlass ACES Refresh and Stop Delay Time Parameter

HourGlass changes the local time for selective applications that take part in a time journey. The HourGlass ACES table contains the jobnames of jobs that are to run with an altered time and is in ECSA storage.When performing a dynamic ACES replace...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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