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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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File manager UNDO command

IBM File Manager should provide an COMMIT command to ensure that changes during the Usage of a File Manager session can be Commited or Restored to the "before" status. This feature is available by other similar non-IBM products
over 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Marking 'jobs/jobstream' as monitored in 'Monitoring Workload' tap.

System: Dynamic Workload Console(TWS) Actor: Enginner who revises the execution pipeline of a job Descripción: When operators had revised the executions pipeline of jobs and they're ok. So they want to mark these jobs as monitored.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Document and support #pragma once in both C/C++

The z/OS C++ compiler supports the #pragma once directive. This is undocumented and not supported for the C language. This feature should be documented and supported for both the C and C++ languages.
over 7 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration

TXSeries should support combination of IBM-858 Servercodepage and Flag UCTrans=Yes

Flag UCTRANS=Yes imposes to uppercase all entered characters. This doesn't work with codepage IBM-858 for characters with ASCII-Code >127, as AIX doesn't support IBM-858. Therefore TXSeries can't perform correct converstion to uppercase by usin...
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

PL/I for AIX string variables are not displayed correctly using IBM Debugger/Rational Developer applications.

Variables containing unprintable characters are not displayed correctly in "(x)= Variables" view. Apparently this is reproducible when a binary NUL is present, which carries no special meaning in CHAR NONVAR variables in PL/1. This severely limits...
over 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

ECBRM/ECB Owner Collection - add retention to FS files

When running ZECBM Collect or ZMOWN Collect, the file system is used to hold the .csv results file and in the case of ZMOWN, the config file. This file is pulled off TPF but the online file is left and must be manually cleaned up. For ZECBM Collec...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

ECBRM LSETNAME=DEFAULT should be required to prevent erroneous update of the default ECBRM values.

In developing our processes for measuring resource usage and setting up ECBRM in PSS, we feel that application programmers could omit the LSETNAME= parm on the ZECBM SET command which would cause the default table to be updated erroneously. We wou...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

IRemoteErrorFeedback.performErrorfeedback()

To fill the RemoteErrorList from a custom plugin you have to use the IRemoteErrorFeedback interface and the performErrorfeedback Method. Up to that point it is part of the RDz API. Unfortunately there is no implementation of the interface provided...
over 7 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 5 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB user account password expiration

Please add the ability for user accounts in the TPF MongoDB server to be created and maintained with the following: 1) non expiring password2) a password that changing after a configurable number of days.3) a password that expires and can only be ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB connection limits by user account

Please implement the ability to configure connection limits to the TPF MongoDB server by user account.
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

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