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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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Graceful Switch should be able to restart at the point of last break

GDPS/A-A 1.7 does not provide capability to restart the switch process at the last break point for graceful switch and force switch. It only provide a WTOR when STOP QREP timeout. It is far from customer's requirements.
almost 8 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Basic CICS Plugin for Intercept

Currently can only be set Display mode 'ON' or 'OFF' by start CTG from SYSIN file. Forces have to recycle the CTG causing a risk
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

z/TPF TE MIPS Reporting of Z/TPF Owner Names and z/TPF Name Value Pair (NVP)

1. Z/TPF Owner Names and z/TPF Name Value Pair (NVP) must support measuring, collecting and reporting of z/TPF Transformation Engine (TE) MIPS on a per ECB basis. 2. The Owner Name and NVP Resource Collector writes the information to a Tape 3. Tha...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

SCRT IBM Sub-Capacity Reporting Tool enhancement to report z/TPF TE MIPS by z/TPF TE Eligible Middleware Components

a. Enhance SCRT report to provide a further break down of TE MIPS by major TE Topics and further into Functions such as: a. Compression i. Compression b. Middleware Application i. Rules Engine (RE) ii. LDAP c. Middleware Data i. ...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Pouvoir indiquer qu'une entité n'est pas à regénérer même si RPP indique le contraire

Dans la vue Gestionnaire de génération (generation manager) pouvoir indiquer les fichiers à ne pas regénérer inutilement (voir détail de l'explication dans les documents ci-joint)
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

To use option -B during TCD add entry

New TCD cannot be added with -B option and region has to be cold started after adding a new TCD entry in the database. I'D like use load new TCD in runtime cics region also.
almost 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Need capability to restore/recall a host archived file from RDz Remote System Explorer

Would like to have a 'Restore Archived File' action on the right-click drop-down menu when selecting a z/OS file which is archived (ie. dimmed out on RDz) with a other vendor product. The action should request a restore operation on the file and i...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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...
almost 8 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 ...
almost 8 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...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration