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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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Ensure runtime metrics collection captures a rare or desired messages.

Some utilities or messages occur extremely rarely (like once every 5 or 60 minutes). If RTMC is sampling 300 ECBs/sec of a 10k/sec workload, it is highly unlikely that utility/message of interest will be captured in the normal course of NVP collec...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Dump history in Runtime Metrics Collection

Runtime Metrics Collection provides dashboards with graphs of various metrics over time. It would be advantageous to show on these graphs when a dump occurs. This may be particularly useful in light of idea https://ibm-z-software-portal.ideas.ibm....
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Loadset history in Runtime Metrics Collection

Runtime Metrics Collection provides dashboards with graphs of various metrics over time. Many of these metrics can be affected by the activation of new code (actual CPU, CPU used by a particular message type/NVP, ECBs in use, etc). It would be adv...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improve documentation of the DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD / DAY-TO-YYYYMMDD intrinsic functions

Hi, The samples given in the documentation of the intrinsic function DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD all correspond to the same use case: the year of argument-1 is greater than or equal to the start year, (without a century), of the interval, therefore it is the...
11 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

COBOL Editor Toggle Comment

Toggle Comment function isn't able to return to previous state. Sample: If you use toggle comment (CTRL+/) for several marked lines and there was already a commented line in one of those lines, the result may not be the expected one. In that case,...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Future consideration

Incorrect Cross-reference of data names with CICS integrated translator

The "Cross-reference section" in a COBOL compile listing correctly contains the line number references to the COBOL data items contained in the EXEC CICS statements when the CICS stand-alone translator is used, but does not contain the line number...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Improve current KOBSZOS so that this panel can provide detailed monitoring and problem management capabilities

Currently KOBSZOS provides: LPAR, SMFID, Sysplex and System name(s), plus their Model & Serial number(s) and the VM User ID(s) (when applicable). This in no way helps to avoid outages, nor does it provide monitoring data as is claimed in the O...
11 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ensure the REST OLDR functions provide proper audit trail to Prime Cras for any changes to a program loadset's status or composition.

Two critical and standard practices used in zTPF systems are the restriction of certain system alteration entries and functions to a CRAS terminal, and the journaling of the resulting alterations themselves to the Prime CRAS system console. The Pr...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SA390 Dynamic Update of CMD processing using ACF REQ=REPL for same named commands.

Enhancement to current functionality of SA's 'ACF REQ=REPL' command.Currently, if multiple CMDs are defined, all with the same name, the ACF REQ=REPL will replace all existing CMDs with the one specified in the line command. Would like to have the...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Update SCNMLNK1 member ISTIECCE to tolerate supported versions of NetView

Providing the ability for new versions of NetView to tolerate supported versions of ISTIECCE (and perhaps ISTIETMN?) would allow significantly higher availability for VTAM users. Per Communications Server documentation: "Because VTAMLIB is opened ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration