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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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Support for additional SMF119 Type 3 fields

Attempted to use the IBM Z Decision Support software (Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS) to generate a report of all FTP client connections and their security attributes. While these fields exist in the SMF119 Type 3 records, they are not collected...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 2 Delivered

Improve messaging and options regarding starting databases at the end of recovery job.

At the end of an IMS Recovery Expert job, messages do not state clearly whether the database(s) involved were started or not. The database should be restored to the same state it was when the recovery job began, but that state may not be known. It...
over 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

PL/I - higher granularity for msg IBM3250I

The following message is critical:IBM3250I W DSNH030I DSNHANAL LINE 8526 COL 1 STATEMENT CONTAINS WRONG NUMBER OF "INTO" VARIABLES Other messages with the same message id are non-critical.We would like to have a specific message id for the above c...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

CICS MQ Bridge configuration

The CICS-MQ bridge should have more flexible configuration of a CICS user program name being invoked by DFHMQBP0/DFHMQBP3 - now a CICS user program name can be only sent as a part of message and there is no option for specifying the predefined CIC...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

DSC member rename leaves orphaned member generations

rename of a pdse member generation 0 leaves orphaned generations -1, -2, -3 and so on.
over 7 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

Provide tooling to migrate zConnect/IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts from one enviroment to another

Add support for packaging, deploying and/or replicating zConnect and IMS Mobile Feature Pack related artifacts for IMS REST service configuration/implementation to different environments such as DEV,System Integration, Prod Acceptance, Prod and DR...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Delivered

Supply Java 11 for z/OS IM installable package in repository manager at http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/

The current Java 11 for z/OS IM installable package is only available from FixCentral, however when we're using IM to manage Liberty on z/OS we uses the online repository manager available at http://www.ibm.com/software/repositorymanager/ to direc...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Delivered

Session Description Field vs Session Field two different legnths.

Minimal issue, but annoying as we having the missing sessions on our main menu issue. The session description on KLSADAS1 (add a session) is only 30 bytes, whereas the actual field is 32 bytes and is correct on KLSADS11 (modify a session). So sinc...
almost 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

PL/I-Editor Code Folding

We would like to have the option of Code Folding within the PL/I-Editor. When you have a huge source with many looping and conditional statements code folding would help in order to find the correct blocks within the source or to hide some complex...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Delivered

SSRANGE with Suboptions MSG/ABD

Introduce SSRANGE with suboptions MSG/ABD for cobol V5.2.This option was introduced in COBOL version 6.1 with the APAR PI74933
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

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