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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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HELP option on ZOODB and ZBROW

TPFUG_Req_Number: D04001ORIGIN DATE: 05 March 2004REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT Online HELP should be available for ZBROW and ZOODB functional entries. REQUIREMENT DESCRIPTION ZOODB and in particular ZBROW have many parameters and the input requirements ar...
almost 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Recoup short term pool loop detection

We are not using the TLC= parameter and have encountered performance mpacts in three of our zTPF systems, during recoup chain chase, whenshort term pools are chained to each other.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Continuous Data Collection - Include session values for SWISC IMMEDIATE requests in the routed entries per sec.

Include session values for SWISC IMMEDIATE requests in the routed entries per sec.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 5 Not under consideration

Automatically issue ZUDFM DEF INIT when activating or deactivating a DBDEF

When changes are made to a DBDEF, a ZUDFM DEF INIT must be done to rebuild the DBDEF index table. When a procedural mistake is made and the ZUDFM DEF INIT is not issued, a variety of error conditions can occur. This could be prevented if a ZUDFM D...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

z/TPF Rest Service Monitoring Dashboard

Problem Statement: How do I know what services are in use on my system and how much system resources they are using?Idea: Dashboard shows a list of services available on the system. For each service it shows: calls per second, success/failures rat...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

An operator can slowly and selectively increase the amount of traffic that uses new code to ensure the code is stable.

Currently, when code is loaded to a production system, 100% of the traffic on the box can use that code. If the loadset is unstable, dumps may occur, system stability may be impacted, service level agreements may be violated, and ultimately end us...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Provide an option on ZDECB to not "PAGE"

We have a time-initiated entry to display all ECBs running. We would like to have the ZDECB display come out un-paged. We do not want to change our WTOPC_PAGE size in UOP3. What we have done is cloned program cvxs.c and pulled out all of the WTOPC...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

TPF_toolkit: connecting to zLinux through bastion

The RSE cannot connect to an host protected by a Bastion
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

V14152 TVP Integrated Terminal

TPFUG_Req_Number: V14152ORIGIN DATE: 2/11/2014REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT Have an Integrated Terminal for all Application entries. Have the ability to perform all Application test entries within the test tool. One tool – one interface REQUIREMENT DESCRIP...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Support a u201cFIPS140-2 capableu201d openSSL package

REQUIREMENT ABSTRACT z/TPF needs to support a later version of openssl (> 0.9.8j) which is “FIPS compatible” and incorporates the openSSL FIPS140-2 object module.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration