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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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Preserve DBA and dumps when force deac is done

HP has various scenarios where there is a need to force deac a processor, and in those cases, we'd like to preserve the dumps. With streaming dumps, or a processor hang, as well as in the case of a catastrophic dump, it typically makes sense in ou...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Physical Tape Libraries and Drives (SYS5112)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 1 Planned for future release

DS8K - Individual Accountability (SYS5006)

Improve Userid security/ individual accountability in IBM Storage Devices
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance FIND/REPLACE so that if you are doing find's or replaces with SELECTED text that the selected text remains selected

Enhance FIND/REPLACE so that if you are doing find's or replaces with SELECTED text that the selected text remains selected so that you can do repeated FIND or REPLACE on the selected text without having to reselect the text each time.
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

TPFAR DDM limit and version.

This includes two enhancements request for TPFAR. 1) Some programs have too many columns to insert/update to allow a run time bind. The maximum DDM commands for TPFAR is 100. A program doing an INSERT/UPDATE for up to 94 columns, with static bindi...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

None information is provided when a storage issue happens in a file which has been excluded according to the product rules.

In a scenario where a DSN is not marked as to be managed by TAAM (it is excluded), there is no message in the joblog that informs about the exclusion. Therefore the user does not know if the problem happens in SMS or it is because TAAM is not inst...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Multi-Page tables in OMEGAMON for MFN V5.11 in TEP Enterprise_Networks views TEP have usability and performance issues.

With OMEGAMON for MFN V5.11 the new Enterprise_Networks navigator view has a few mulit-page tables that can be mostly blank because of were the filtering is done.This creates usability and performance issues.All Filters should be done in a custom ...
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Remove default TN3270 and FTP port for the Find command in the Enterpise_Networks Navigator view

With OMEGAMON for MFN V5.11, the new Find commands defaults to port 23 for TN3270 and 21 for FTP. For customers who override the default ports the defaults will always have to be overridden.The default should be * (all ports)
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Networks on z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Requesting Change presentation action on Group level

At the moment Change Presentation is only available on the lowest level of the variable definition. However you have to do it for every variable. If you could do it on the group level if would be much more efficient.
almost 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

RDz - Support searching with embedded wildcard

Search filter * within the text does not work. Eg. NH.DEV*.SOURCE gives 0 results. However, the pattern works fine when creating a new Filter on MVS FILES. Can the search facility be enhanced to accept embedded wildcards?
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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