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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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Allow slow double click

TPFUG_Req_Number: V05004Contact Originator Id: RGarritson@Visa.comAbstract: TPF Toolkit: Allow slow double click to default to rename file.Description: When slow double clicking on a file in the RES or TPF Project navigator, default to the rename ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Expand VFA Waitlist for DASD IO & Other types

TPFUG_Req_Number: S99011Contact Originator Id: John KucseraAbstract: The VFA Waitlist whould be expanded to include DASD IO and if possible, any other looping type IO for tapes, MPIF, SNA, etc. that the TPF USER might want to remove from the CPU L...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

MQ04018 MQSeries Provide support for requestor channels

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ04018Contact Originator Id: rmansell@visa.comAbstract: Provide support for requestor channels.Description: Requestor channels are receiver channels that ask the remote sender channel to start. Environments with large number of ...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

MQ06002S MQ add support for Message Translation by the Queue Manager

TPFUG_Req_Number: MQ06002SContact Originator Id: mike.mansell@aexp.comAbstract: This MQ Series enhancement will add support for message translation by the Queue Manager when requested by the Get function with convert optionDescription: MQ series o...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

CC3 option for catastrophic after x mods down

TPFUG_Req_Number: S99015Contact Originator Id: John KucseraAbstract: Establish a SIPGEN option to take CPU down (cycle 1052 state and/or catastrophic) if "X" Mods are lost in "Y" timeframe.Description: This is a small change to CC3 processing. Hum...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

change default representation of floating-point variables in assembler

If the value of a variable defined as D ( floating point) is very small - the monitor will display 0.0. If you change the representation to HEX you will see x'000000000000001C' which is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000...
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow relative GDGs as TDQUEUEs

Please allow the EXEC CICS CREATE TDQUEUE command to include a relative GDG indicator (eg. -1 or -2). The command translator flags DSNAME(xxx.xxx.xxx(-2)) as having too many parentheses. You may also want to extend this capability to the CSD file.
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Message supression in CICS/PA

While running CICS Performance Analyzer reports, we are getting lots of messages for regions that we are not interested in. The messages are CPA0230I and CPA0359W. We don't want to see these messages for systems not being reported by CICS PA i.e n...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Support of Jumbo Frames and MTU Discover For zTPF

My client wishes to convert from MTU = 1492 to MTU - 8992 aka Jumbo Frames. Need zTPF to support a TCPIP packet size of 9000 by allowing the zTPF MTU setting to be increased from 3480 to 8992. Also required is the enablement/support of MTU Discovery.
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Create endevor packages automaticlly pull in ccid and comments

When building a package in endevor, automatically pull in the ccid and description to the package from the element that I have selected. All that would need to be added is a check to see if there is a ccid on the element which is already in RDz, i...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration