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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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Automating cached files cleaning

I would like to have the cached files deletion to be handled automatically within RDz client V9.5.1 to avoid any files crash behavior, probably due with cached files.
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

RULES: (NO)LAXSTMT

(NO)LAXSTMT as a suboption of RULES: There may be maximum 1 statement per source (not PP) line.
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

High CPU in DFHXMAT when the current number of TCLASS'd tasks approaches 99,999.

Each task that is attached is assigned a task number even if it is just queued in a TRANCLASS. CICS uses just 99,999 task numbers. As the current number of attached tasks approaches 99,999, DFHXMAT spends much time on the attach of each task figur...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Delivered

Processes running in parallel run forever

We currently have 195 AD projects with cross applications. If I do a make build for a maximum of 25 projects in parallel, then it very often happens that the builds abort with the following error:"========================== =BATCH MAKE ERROR FILE=...

Possibilty to hide BADHEX messages in Audit logs

The possibility to hide the numerous BADHEX messages in audit.log
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Provide the possibility to use system symbol definitions in the CAZCNFG0

There is a need to have system symbol definitions to ease the use in a complex z/OS environment with several PLEXes
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Reduce vulnerabilities with TCPIP connections by providing RACF Keyring support.

There is a risk that exploitation of TCP/IP connection vulnerabilities by a malicious actor could lead to the loss of Customer data and potentially service outage. All IzWS access would need to be reviewed which could lead to access being remov...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Delivered

HACP EE Host Code page support for 1145 Spanish, 284 Spanish and 1140 Portuguese

This RFE applies to HACP EE.Add Code page support for Spanish 1145-S, Spanish 284-S and Portuguese 1140-PExample: Code point 7B should be represented using Code page ‘Spanish 284' with Ñ
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Delivered

DEPRECATE and DEPRECATENEXT for preprocessor

It would be nice to have DEPRECATE and DEPRECATENEXT also for variables or procedures generated by the preprocessor
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Resource limiting on transaction runtime time (after first dispatch)

We have transactions queued in tclass and they are in tclass for longer than the time allowed for the task to complete in the resource monitoring. This result in the tasks being purged as soon as they get a change to start / get first dispatched. ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 1 Delivered