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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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Having the choice of memory position when using ALLOCATE

When using the ALLOCATE statement it's impossible to specify where the storage must be allocated (like in the STORAGE OBTAIN macro).
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Delivered

Provide Support for FARF6 Fixed File Records

We need to have fixed file records beyond FARF5 limitation.
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Delivered

Prepackaged explicit DLL call support

The ability to make explicit DLL calls from non-DLL compile units is quite important for integrating Java code into larger existing applications that make extensive use of DYNAM calls. A standard explicit DLL call API should be provided by the Cob...
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Support substrings with length zero in EGL

EGL supports the concept of substrings by means of the syntax: source[start:end], which returns the substring of source from position start to end, including both start and end position. Currently, when end is less than start, a run-time exception...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Delivered

CICS Explorer : Support User Shutdown Transaction in Regions View

Provide a new option in the Regions Context menu (right click) to shut down the region using a user written shutdown transaction.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Generation of copybook with the option DSQC1

The creation of a copybook with the option “DSQC1: DATASQ option C1” is impossible even the choice is proposed in RPP.In Pacbase we use this option to generate copies which are used in native COBOL's program.Without this options we can't uses DB2'...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

HACP EE Host Code page support for 284 Spanish and 1140 Portuguese

This RFE applies to HACP EE.Add Code page support for Spanish 284-S and Portuguese 1140-PExample: Code point 7B should be represented using Code page ‘Spanish 284' with Ñ
almost 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Delivered

DIC/SQL - Evolution du format TIMESTAMP DB2 V10

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------NUMERO............: 831096 ( CGI 1056 ) TYPE..............: I DEMANDE D'INFORMATION ETAT..............: 01 EVENEMENT DECRIT, A DECLARER GRAVITE...........: N SEVERITE 1...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Include text file containing version number

Node.js applications can be run in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS. To do this users indicate the location of their Node installation and CICS starts a Node runtime environment. CICS supports multiple versions of Node (8 and 12 at the time of wri...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Node.js 2 Delivered

Reduce TCB switches for CWXN

We are trying to adopt threadsafe techniques for our applications, but our largest opportunity is with transaction CWXN, which has hundreds of millions of TCB switches per day. Most if not all of these are due to switching between the QR, SO, and ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

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