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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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Start marking of changed lines in Cobol PDP Editor

With LPEX editor, we can ?start marking of changed lines?it is widely used in COBOL program maintenanceCould you please implement this function in PDP Cobol Editor ?We need it to modify program with RPP.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Delivered

Forward CVx64 data to PLU when in relay mode

With regulatory compliance requirements growing every day, many IBM customers are asking for more comprehensive audit trails of origin IP addresses through TN3270 connections, especially those that include session managers. While there is some goo...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Need for Simple ISPF like Search (3.14) for PDS

When trying the remote search option on a large PDS (13,000 members), our user experience is one where the RDz client never returns a response to the user. This is a ciritical feature for the work that our developers do in order to do their job wi...
almost 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Delivered

Provide a CICS API to generate an encrypted RACF Passticket based upon a Kerberos token.

Using the CICS API (RFE 38916) to verify a Kerberos token in CICS it is also necessary to generate a RACF Passticket for a certain application using the Userid within the Kerberos token. Providing a CICS API would massively ease the adoption of th...
almost 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Suppress message IGYOS4097-I for "TEST(NODWARF)"

When using the "TEST(NODWARF)" compilation option without any other parameter (or with EJPD/NOEJPD), this triggers an IGYOS4097-I message: IGYOS4097-I The TEST suboption values of SOURCE or SEPARATE are not allowed when NODWARF is in effect. The s...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Make Backend TPIPEs small

Reduce storage utilization for Shared Queues Backend TPIPEs, so we can save storage to increase our MAXTP.
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Delivered

zFS file attributes and status info in table view in z/OS Explorer

Show zFS files in a table like view (similar to other CICS Explorer views) including their attributes
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Allow setting a context with a central text field rather than selection

add a central text field that allows to set the context scope quickly instead of selecting a region/ group/ etc. from the other views
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Please increase FPBUF,FPBOF and CNBA limits

Please increase FPBUF,FPBOF and CNBA limits for IIDR for IMS replication.The customer met CECI0021E Status code:FR on APPLY server.The BMP application specified NBA=3000,OBA=4000 on the source IMS server.The DFSPZPxx set FPBUF=200,FPBOF=999, and C...
over 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Delivered

Decrease e-private usage

When taking code coverage in IDz for load module which is on CSA/ECSA in IMS FP region, the process ABENDed by using mass e-private. (Refer to PMR# 01458,695,760 for details) The environment where we experienced the ABEND was as follows ;- Compile...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered