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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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Stack Validation dump CTL-064009 should allow return to application

Stack Validation is a ZSTRC trace option introduced with PUT12 and is very effective in identifying applications that corrupt their own stack variables.However it is also a victim of its own success as the resulting CTL-064009 dump exit the applic...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Not under consideration

Is the new library libplidbg.a threadsafe?"

Please clarify this:Is it is safe to use libplidbg.a in a threaded envrionment (eg pli_r4)eg. when using the dependent builtins ONLINE() and PLIDUMP()esp. with TXseries 8.2 A libplidbg_r.a has not been provided. dump -X32 -Hv /usr/lib/libplidbg.a ...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

CICS EP Adapter that passes CICS Events to IBM Common Data Provider

In general Rabobank would like to see IBM go into the direction of collecting and forwarding every type of (System Z) data (monitor data, analytics, events, etc.) by IBM Common Data Provider. CDP already collects different types of SMF records and...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Start-Stop messages in XML extended to CICS regions (Debug Tool)

Debug Tool has the feature of recording information for start and end events for debugging sessions. These messages are written in a sequential file in XML format. They could be processed by a customer application to have the scenario of who is us...
over 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

EGL language support

EGL support in AD
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Shutdown option after performing an update

I would like an option for the user to choose between either closing or restarting IBM TPF Toolkit after is update is performed. Currently, the user is shown a box with "OK" as the only option and it restarts automatically.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

Allow inline-modification of diagram properties

When navigating complex diagrams (especially callgraphs), it would be great to change various properties of the diagram without having to go through the wizard again. For example, "Callgraph Limit" could be changed directly within the graph. In ad...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Allow import of annotations from the source code

Some customers already document important aspects of a program in the source code (sometimes using specific conventions). For them, it would be great to have AD import those specific comments into ADDI (maybe by specifying a certain "comment patte...
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Show annotations in the various reports

If customers use annotations, they would like to see them when generating reports (e.g. Impact Analysis, Complexity, ...) so they have the documentation available directly within the report.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

zOSConnect Log Encryption

Encryption capability for payload logging for APIs hosted on zOSConnect.
over 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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