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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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IPL recovery log status message

Customer is requesting additional status information during IPL of the recovery log . They would like to know if the log is being processed or if it's hung. Here is an example of a message. The thought is that we would know that the log is progres...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

TAAM should not rely on the name of the STC to ignore DB2 data sets

TAAM by design does not process DB2 data sets. However in order to ignore these data sets, TAAM rely on the name of the DB2 STC. If this name is the default one, everything is fine however if the name has been customized by the customer then TAAM ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Coloring of builtin functions in PLI editor, does not allways works

Product or Service: Rational Developer for System z 9.1.0 Component ID: 5724T0700 . Operating System: Windows (Microsoft) . Problem title Coloring of builtin functions in PLI editor, does not allways works . Problem description Coloring of builtin...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 6 Not under consideration

Working storage dump to be provided during failures - necessary for PROD implementation

Currently in Test environment, development team have the option to put display statement and run the program few times or simulate the case wherever feasible, but when it comes to production environment, support staff doesn't have such liberty, as...
over 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

PMR 14055,035,724: APPC, CICS and VTAM GENERIC RESOURCES

The Hub Model for APPC is a single point of failure. Intoduction to my Problem: I have two TOR/CICS e.g. CICSA and CICSB on a Z/OS SYSPLEX. CICSA and CICSB are both provider and requester. Both TOR/CICS are IP - Provider and IP Requster as well as...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

API required to fetch records based on offset from the SFS server

Kindly raise a RFE for the below given request and kindly copy Hari Venkitachalam (vharihar@in.ibm.com) and Roger Brzostek (brzostek@us.ibm.com) in the RFE as they are in discussion with First Data related to this issue.
over 9 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Not under consideration

TPF Continuous Data Collection. Add Heap Storage Statistic

Please add heap storage metrics to data gathered in z/TPF by Continuous Data Collection.
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

CICS - function to obtain infomation such as CICS Login ID, workstation IP, etc when accessing DB2 z/OS

A CICS published function is needed to obtain information from CICS such as the CICS Login ID, workstation IP address, etc. when the known information is DB2 thread connection information. This would help with security auditing and other functiona...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

DEDB DBFUMIN0 DB utility and ACBLIB

DBFUMIN0 requires the ACBLIB library. During IMS version migration in an IMSPLEX environnement, the utility fails because it ran in IMS V12 and ACBLIB was still in V11. DBFUMIN0 should be able to run with the DBDLIB to be not release dependant.
over 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

Apps Interface to Record Hold Table

Requirement - an Applications macro that will interface with the record hold table (IDSRHT) and produce a list of all the records (file addresses) that the ECB is holding. using such a mechanism, the applications programmer can then write a routin...
over 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

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