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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 for a summary of WLM Stored Procedures using Collateral DB2

Using the APA collateral function for DB2 (CDB2 Collateral DB2 activity), APA is able to follow the path to any Stored Procedure (SPC) and will observe the stored procedures. The report is only based on a by WLM SPC. There is an urgent need to hav...
over 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Get default code page of the RSE for the code page HCE

Our RSE code page is set to IBM-1147 and we want to get this code page by default for the Host Connection emulator (HCE) instead of IBM-037 in each new workspace.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 5 Delivered

find or locate command avalaible through ISPF panels for statistics

CICSPA should provide locate or find command when accessing statistics information through ISPF panels
almost 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

Dataset Commander for z/OS: show all generations for a selected member

Currently showing all generations for members is all or nothing. We would like a new line command “Q” that displays a new panel showing all generations ONLY for the selected member.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Delivered

JCICS classes invalidated after being invoked from non-cics task in liberty

Calling a JCICS class without running under a cics task in a liberty JVM, causes the request to get a RUNTIMEEXCEPTION, as expected. However, all subsequent calls to same class/method even when run under a cics-task will then fail with java.lang.N...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Add XDECLARE/XDCL and XDEFINE to declare/define sth. if it has not been previously declared/defined in the current block

Inspired by %XINCLUDE and the support of multiple %DCL of the same named variable in the MACRO preprocessor we would like to get XDECLARE/XDCL and XDEFINE (ALIAS, ORDINAL, STRUCT or STRUCTURE) statements: - Based on the name the declaration/defini...
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Add typed structures in aggregate listing

We would like to be able to directly locate any variable of a typed structure with its offset to the base within the listing section “Aggregate Length Table”.
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

Add MINVAL and MAXVAL built-in functions returning the smallest/largest value for a fixed variable

Inspired by LOW/HIGH for character as well as by TINY/HUGE for float we would like to get new MINVAL and MAXVAL built-in functions returning the smallest (negative or zero) and largest (positive) value for fixed variables only (binary or decimal)....
almost 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Fault Analyzer for CICS does not support AMODE64 applications

The present version of Fault Analyzer for CICS does not support AMODE64 assembler applications, including, but not limited to: (1) Displaying General Purpose in Grande Format for programs executing as AMODE64;(2) Dumping above-the-bar storage that...
almost 8 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Option to tolerant uninitialised / SPACE data in numberic fields during dataxform transformation

z/OS Connect will reject a data stream if any field does not comply with the data types as defined in the Copybook. The customer application response messages may contain SPACES in numeric fields under certain circumstances by design and will fail...
almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered