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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 APM tokens in CICS Transaction Gateway

The use of Application Performance Management software continues to grow rapidly in large enterprises. The market has a 25.1% CAGR, and is expected to grow in value to almost $6 billion by 2023 (“MarketsandMarkets Cognitive Operations Market Globa...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Delivered

Online warning message for RLOG records

Customer is ask for an online warning message when RLOG records reach 75% full in order to prevent the system from going catastrophic with a C117 dump.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

List of Control-M elements

In the tab "Explore … (project name)", we can't see the list of available project resources on Control-M type. Our need is to have the list of Control-M elements in this tab (like other types, IWS for example).

Implement EXEC CICS INQUIRE POLICY SPI command

A new SPI INQUIRE POLICY command needs to be added in order to allow running through the policy definitions to collect statisistical usage information. Without an INQUIRE START/NEXT/END process, the user must know exactly which policies they are l...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

Use new START TASK NEWREQ when starting tasks out of listeners (MQMONITORs, SOCKETs, etc.)

Add a new option when creating listener tasks ([Deleted] as MQMONITORs or IP SOCKET listeners) to allow sites to spawn work independently from the listener task. See the RFE on providing a NEWREQ option to EXEC CICS START TRANID() NEWREQ.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

Ability to connect to CICS IA through SM Perspective in CICS Explorer

We notice that when we try to connect to IA from the CICS SM perspective in order to do a dependency check on a resource we find that we are presented with an internal error:No Connectable set for connection category 'com.ibm.cics.ia.connection.db...
about 9 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 2 Delivered

RDz Code Coverage comparison report

The current Code Coverage report has "comparison" features, but it only shows the number of line increase / decrease. It should also show the exact code statement. Otherwise we cannot know which line are newly covered / not covered by the new test...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Need more control over the SYSPLEX/PLEXVIEW proxy selection process

Currently the SYSPLEX/PLEXVIEW proxy is selected by chance and as a result it happens regularly that the selected proxy runs on a low resource LPAR (limited MSU availability and additional heavily used) which then slows data display in the Enhance...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

New UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFE 4122

Please provide a new UUID built-in function generating a version 4 UUID per RFC 4122. To be able to generate version 4 and 5 in the same program we suggest the following implementation: - New UUID4 built-in function- Rename UUID to UUID5 built-in ...
about 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

COBOL 5 - TEST(NODWARF) for non-IBM debug tool users

This requirement is similar to existing requirement 75048 "Cobol V5 - Evolution for TEST option-TEST(EJPD,NODWARF) for non IBM debuging tools" IBM provides in Enterprise COBOL version 5 a sub-option for the TEST compiler option - NOTEST(NODWARF). ...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered