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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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Include support for FDRSOS in CBT feature of ABR

Client is deploying Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS and uses FDRSOS to backup z/OS NFS file systems to z/OS managed tape. Client would like the Critical Backup Tracking and Inventory feature of Tivoli ABnR enhanced so that FDRSOS back...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Future consideration

More then 1 data set for staging ACBLIB DFSMDA member.

As per current design Dynamic Allocation for the ACBLIB staging library allow only one data set to be specified. The DFSMDA TYPE=IMSACB macro allow only one data set and should be modified to allow more then one specification.
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Not under consideration

Adjusting the total allocation size

ACS/STOP-X37EX has the function to monitor the total allocation size and suppress it, as the parameter SIZE-T-ALL.Would you add the same function to IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management(ITAAM)? We are persuading to replace STOP-X37 to ITAAM, ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Include a new parameter in FMN2POPT to allow the default setting of the concurrency clause for File manager for DB2 to be set

Allow setting of the concurrency parameter system wide via the install table FMN2POPT. Currently this is set at "1. No with clause" but we would prefer to set this to "0. Uncommitted read" across the system.
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Notification of compile results

Is there any way to get a notification of the results of the compile? Or could we get a Locate Job when run in batch mode?
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Environment name default to a user specified choice

Is it possible to get an environment name to default to an environment of our choice?
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Additional component for BATCH job statistics stored in TDS on an SMF interval basis per job instead of only one per job

We daily upload the SMF data into TDS but were wondering if there's any table containing the resource consumption of these batch jobs on an interval base. We would expect to find this data in the MVSAC_JOBADDR1_T table as this one contains all the...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

More granular parts as result of WSDL service skeleton creation

When creating a EGL service skeleton from a WSDL file it would be much better to have EGL files for each separate part (records and data items). The separate parts should not be combined together in a small number of large files (without knowing w...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Display File Pool Status

Today to have a status of the pool directories we have the following entries:ZDFPC for the count and the current directory.ZRECP DISPLAY POOL for the directory ranges.For a complete view of all the sections we need a lot of entries and we can not ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Better way to copy records without having connections between them

As described in PMR#50724,211,788, there is a problem with passing array variables to functions. Even when these variables are copied to another record, there is still a link with the original array until this array is initialized. Thanks to Mark ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

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