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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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DB2 z/OS automated support transfer/copy to zD&T

DB2 z/OS support to copy from Source LPAR to zDT
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Delivered

DBB User build - provide an API to trigger it through custom code

We don't like DBB user's build wizard and we have submitted several enhancements to make it better. We think that ultimately, having an option to control the user build triggering by ourselves would give us more freedom to implement rules for the ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

DBB User build - dependencies should be available whether people have opened the editor or not before

When the developer performs a user build, it is important to check "discover the dependencies to load", to make sure that all the needed source files are loaded on the mainframe. DBB user build is often used when a developer makes changes to a pro...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

z/TPF MQ Client cannot control local address

z/TPF MQ Client today will default ie the client will bind to the default IP. The customers is request an option to control the local address
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Validate PDS directory entries

PDS libraries can become corrupted, where the directory entries are not pointing to the correct location of a module. This requirement is to add a "VALIDATE" function to Data Set Commander, which will determine if a PDS library is valid. This comm...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

Report LLA managed members with mismatched directory entries

Wells Fargo has requested we show mismatched LLA members with the IBM Data Set Commander. This allows one to determine if a "synchronization" is required for members.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

Timestamp in PL/I

A builtin function for getting a full timestamp like in DB2.
almost 12 years ago in PL/I Compilers 10 Delivered

OTMA TPIPE queue depth monitoring

We have a business requirement where we need to monitor OTMA TPIPE queue depth before messages are placed in the TPIPE. We do not want to add ‘dis tmember xxxx tpipe xxxx' logic to our high volume transactions. We would like the have the capabilit...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Delivered

UNION padding should also cause info message

The compiler shows messages if padding in aligned structure happens The compile should also show a message if padding happens in union's
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Keep CICS cipher defaults up-to-date

CICS RDO TCPIPService and URImap definition that use SSL work with certain default ciphers (strongciphers.xml). The default ciphers do not contain the latest/strongest cipher standards which are available on z/OS.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

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