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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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Monitoring CTG with JMX

In the CTG Gateway, the ways to follow the statistics are : Java API, CTG Plug-in for CICSExplorer ctgadmin command. Currently it is not possible to manage statistics with JMX. In order to manage CTG with JMX, is it possible that CTG statistics wi...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Remove the need for the TOS server to connect back to a port on the TOS client.

TPF Operations Client Server interface connects to the server at tcp/ip port 10001 (configurable) and the server connects back to a tcp/ip port on the client between 1024 and 5000. Requirement is to remove the need for the server to connect back t...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Allow CONTROL RACF Access level to be used for CREATE and DISCARD commands for SAF checks to the CCICSCMD class

In addition to ALTER authority also allow CONTROL to be used for all FRACHECKs to the CCICSCMD class for CREATE and DISCARD commands. As a general RACF point of design ALTER should never be used in a general resource class profile as well. The rea...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Epilog does not distinguish between CP and zIIP CPU

We are heavily dependent on Epilog to determine how much CPU that jobs and tasks use. We have found that Epilog does not distinguish between CP and zIIP CPU usage, nor records dependent enclave cpu time by the dependent job. We would like these fi...
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"Summarized active target region distribution trends" in WUI needs additional information

EYUSTARTWLMATARG.TABULAR2 view in the WUI, "Summarized active target region distribution trends" gives the total number of Route Selections for each target region. That field is RTSELECT, and it is populated from data in the AOR descriptor.While i...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

A message should be issued at the end of the Database re-open process during IMS Warm or Emergency Restart

When IMS is restarted either Warm or Emergency all Databases which were previously Open and Authorized are automatically re-opened. This happens right after restart completes unless NOPDBO is coded in DFSVSMxx PROCLIB Member. If dependent region p...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 2 Not under consideration

Update system logger processing so the RETPD definition parm provides a default retention period for logstream data.

Update logger processing so the RETPD definition parm provides a default retention period for logstream data rather than a fixed retention period. IXGDELET requests for data that has not reached that RETPD should be honored. From a logstream admin...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Source mapping with common list not possible with subroutines

When source mapping of an EPLI application is used with a common list, APA attempts to load source using the CSECT name first, and if that is not found then it uses the load module name. Usually EPLI source is stored with its modulename and not wi...
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Trigger Interval Parameter for zTPF MQ Manager

Provide the ability to define a Trigger Interval (TRIGINT) for the IBM Websphere MQ Queue Manager in z/TPF. This feature allows z/TPF to alleviate problems related to trigger type FIRST which is currently only activated when the queue starts out e...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Using RDz Editors, content assist does not propose the column names of the defined DB2 tables for EXEC SQL statements

In our COBOL programs using RDz LPEX Editor, Content assist does not propose column namesof our defined DB2 tables within EXEC SQL INSERT and EXEC SQL DECLARE CURSOR statements.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

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