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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 for DB2 - add control access to IDAA

We need to be able to control whether or not File Manager for DB2 accesses data from DB2 or IDAA. Our zparms for IDAA are set to NONE, so unless we can instruct File Manager for DB2 to use IDAA, it will never access IDAA. This is a big limitation ...
about 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CICS INQUIRE DATASET for FCT or TDQ associated with the file

Identify the FCT or TDQ name associated with a dataset name specified in the System Programming Interface INQUIRE DSNAME options. It would also be helpful if this were available via CEMT INQ DSNAME.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

PCOMM's FTP Client to provide translation support EBCDIC/ASCII

To use IBM Personal Communications FTP Client and the capability to be able to specify translation table from ASCII to EBCDIC and EBCDIC to ASCII according to standard codepages being used within PCOM 3270 Emulation. Selectable ASCII codepages sho...
about 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

DFDL performance improvement

DFDL performance improvement is need for r a large choice with hundreds of discriminators this would involve supporting DFDL choiceDispatchKey and choiceBranchKey
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

restart status for diagnostic purposes.

The request is to add add status into the restart process for betterdiagnostic purposes, it order to know which program was called if restart dies or if it is taking a long time to complete.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Integration with Windows spell-check and dictionary function

Provide integration with Windows spell check and local dictionary function. Highlight words incorrectly spelled and provide suggested dictionary entries.
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Code Coverage should provide instruction level analysis capabilities

Code Coverage currently supports a source line view of code exection. However, there are multiple instances where it would be helpful to break down execution coverage at the instruction level.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

extremely large DSM report in File Manager

I like AQUA or the PDTools Studio to handle these extremely large DSM reports can you please get them to raise an RFE so the development work can be scheduled for a future release.
about 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Additional diagnostic info to determine path/version of tpftools and linux bin being used (for example offldr inside loadtpf)

PJ43352 delivered a new version of offldr so when staging code that was to load with this new version we set up our paths such that we would pick up the new version. We ran into a problem where some users were executing the new version of offldr a...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Publish APAR text file in XML

I have written an APAR management tool implemented as a plugin in the TPF Toolkit. I have coded a scan to extract information from the PJnnnnn.txt file. I would be able to enhance the automation if the APAR text were also available in an XML file.
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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