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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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Add new MACRO option IGNORE(NOPRINT)

We would like to have a new option IGNORE(NOPRINT) supported by the MACRO preprocessor. So specifying either PPMACRO('... IGNORE(NOPRINT) ...') PP(MACRO) or PP(MACRO('... IGNORE(NOPRINT) ...')) all %NOPRINT directives are ignored and have no effec...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

add install onto the WLMDEF table

We require install option in WLMDEF table. Currently there is no install option when you right click on WLMDEF table.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Exclude option for files, SQL tables in the programs call graph view.

In the AD version v6.0.1 both forward and backward call graph shows programs, files, SQL tables in the analyze client graphical view. From users perspective the expected behavior is to show only the programs alone. Of course this could have been a...
almost 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 5 Delivered

Transactions that have been purged will still process messages but need to be started after a recycle in SQ systems.

The company uses IMS with shared queues. Whenever a transaction is purged, a BMP will still process the messages queued to it, but after the system is restarted, the same BMP will not process it. Starting the transaction again will resume the proc...
almost 4 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 2 Delivered

ACBLIB member OLC for DBD change

We expect the ACBLIB member online change (OLC) succeeds for a single DBD re-generated with the BLDPSB=NO option. Currently OLC requires one or more related PSBs in the staging ACBLIB.
almost 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 30 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE using z/OS Unicode service to do the code page conversion

Many customers in Taiwan, we are using z/OS Connect EE product for CP1371 code page conversion solution . However z/OS Connect EE is using JAVA SDK to do the code page conversion and it's not support CP1371 standard.Customer expect zCEE uses z/OS ...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Exctended Source Code Margins

Our developers gave us the requirement to be able to have source Code longer than 72 chars (as long as possible) for packages and generated code with rdz, as they are used to have long lines in java they also want them for PL/1. Our margins are cu...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

DFH$MOLS sample for printing monitoring data does not break out specific RMI times

Since CICS TS v5.1 the MCT TYPE=INITIAL uses the default value of RMI=YES for the MCT table, however the existing sample DFH$MOLS only prints the total RMI elapsed time and count and the total RMI suspend time and count. The DFHMNPDA sample that p...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Allow Z/tpf High speed connector to Round Robin across all active sockets within a endpoint in a send without resp design.

When using TPF High speed connector in a send and forget manner to 1 primary endpoint with multiple defined activity sockets.The HSC will mostly only use the 1st socket, unless 2 ecbs do a send at the same time or if the 1st socket send buffer fil...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Dynamic Override of Remote IPs and Ports for Test Environments

Support the online modification of some HSC descriptor fields via functional command Increase Max sockets Modify the destination, IP or port number via online command. ZCONN ALT G-HSCGRP1 E-HSCEPT1 maxsock-xx dest-xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(yyyy)
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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