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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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Need support so all files that can be TLD loaded can be included in a TLD deck

File system files can be loaded using OLD or TLD. OLD can load a file system file to any location. By default, a TLD can only load program base unique files. If customers want to allow a TLD to load files to other locations they must update user e...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

TLD needs to report how many files were loaded

When a TLD is loaded, it reports the CIMR and keypoints loaded and a count of the number of e-types. It does not currently provide a count of files loaded. When a TLD includes file system files the TLD load should report how many files were loaded...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Hourglass support/enhancement for DDF workload with LEGACYDB2QUALIFICATION=Y.

HourGlass doesn't support all kinds of z/OS DB2 DDF workload when the HourGlass option LEGACYDB2QUALIFICATION=Y is used. This is a request for a full support of DDF workload for customers using LEGACYDB2QUALI=Y. For DB2 workload it is possible to ...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Delivered

Add Support for &APPLID in the MONDATA field of a MQMonitor resource

It would be very useful when sharing MQMonitor resources among multiple CICS regions if the MQDATA field support the symbolic parameter &APPLID. This would allow the installation of the same resource definition of MQMonitor for a CKBR CICS MQ ...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

COBOL for AIX:limit the amount of memory used by CPM loaded modules

Controls the amount of memory used by CPM: 1. limit the number of modules loaded by CPM, By specifying the upper limit of the number of program modules Or 2. limit the amount of memory used by CPM loaded program module, by specifying the upper lim...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

Menu Manager action from JSE

We need the ability to launch Menu Manager from the JES interface and pass the job number etc. via Menu Manager to TSO, or a job or HATS.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Delivered

Having poor table declarations flagged.

Hi during our test phase for COBOL 6 we encounter an memory overwrite after recompiling a program. The abend is linked with the new STGOPT option wich had discarded some unused items after the chart Here's the failing syntax this chart is defined ...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Delivered

Request additional filter options for subsystem queries to allow only active subsystems to be displayed in a client.

PDT studio takes a long time to display all CICS as it display all active or not. Users start to take drastic actions when there are delays in the display. This causes unnecessary calls to us and problems with the sessions to the File Manager on t...
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add support for embedded languages like (CICS, DLI and SQL) for Program Data Flow

When users right click in Cobol source that includes embedded languages like (CICS, DLI and SQL) and chooses Show in Data Flow or Show in Data Flow Hierarchy they're receiving errors. Per this documentation this is a known limitation in which the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Provide MQ user exit for sequence number errors detected by receiver channel

After re-definition of MQ channels, channel sequence number is reset to 1. This leads to sequence number errors when a message is received due to the remote system remembering the last message sequence number sent. A sequence number error requires...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

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