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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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NEED TCP/IP SSU Counts made available

It is currently understood that high speed and low speed messages are going away. However, the TCP/IP messages are of extreme value for us and our ability to assist in the troubleshooting for when problems occur. When a problem currently happens, ...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Control Elements for CICS

Control Elements for CICS.we would like AGGSCDS sharing across CICS region on the same LPAR / override the date at the CICS started task level (similar to ATF)It needs to be able to retain date/time overrides when the region cycles. It needs to be...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Set prefix for IPIC termid rather than default "/"

We need à parameter to select the termid prefix for IPIC connection
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

RFE for header file cache optimization on C compiler

We would like to see the following implemented with the C compiler frontend just like it is for the C++ compiler frontend beginning with Xlc 12.1: -qxflag=dircache[,m[,n]] where m and n are optional * m is a integral prime number between 2 and 71 ...
over 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 5 Not under consideration

zDT - Sample DB2 Data from source to target

Allow for the selection of sampled data during unload of DB2 data. Sampling either by # of records or sql select statement.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

File Manager for DB2

Today in File Aid we have the ability to set the selection criteria on any column relatively quickly by just keying in a value and running the sql. With File Manager it seems the only way to accomplish this is either getting the entire table back ...
over 5 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Data collection should support user message counters and a customizable weighted message calculation

• A vanilla object code version of offline DATAREAD should be shipped so that customers with no local mods do not have to compile the offline code. If customers can use the vanilla shipped DATAREAD they would not need a PL/1 compiler and could sav...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / Other 4 Not under consideration

BYPASS for ZFCTB LOAD

There are times we may want to bypass the FCTB validation when using Norm State FCTB Load. It would be beneficial if we could load a FCTB in Norm when wanting to delete a pool type, for example.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Allow more than 9 break levels in Programming Patterns

We recently had reason to develop a program with more than 9 levels of control breaking. The source of the input was a DB2 cursor. We tried to use a group field, but that does not generate correctly when using an Organization of '2'. The group fie...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 7 Not under consideration

AD builder - Dynamic resolution of values transferred through pointers (addresses)

System: Application Discovery Client Product We want to use Application Discovery for all of our z/OS applications. Description: Application Discovery Build Client does not have support compilation for dynamic resolution of values transferred thro...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

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