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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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CICS Webservices timeout specification

The documentation for timing out inbound web service requests is not very clear and it is time consuming to test the combination of options. It would be simpler if a timeout value could be specified for in the webservice definition (or in the firs...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS API to inquire MVS workload manager service reporting class taken

Enable and allow CICS application access to MVS workload manager service reporting class token in order to determine whether the work originated from a mobile channel/device.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Différence de version du générateur dans RPP

Ano-V9.1-28 ? Version du g?n?rateur dans RPP A la g?n?ration d'un nouveau programme COBOL la version indiqu?e du logiciel est diff?rente de celle de migration (le probl?me est le m?me ? la re-g?n?ration d'un programme migr?) Est-ce normal ? Nous p...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Allow option to move IDI messages to a CICS TDQ for Fault Analyzer

As Fault Analyzer deployed to our CICS regions, we have found it to be a bit "noisey". An option to move various Fault Analyzer messages to a TDQ just for Fault Analyzer would help reduce the complexity of the system log.
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add FA/ISPF Point-and-Shoot's functionality to View mode of Fault Entry

Enhance Fault Analyzer's ISPF interface to allow for Point-and-Shoot functionality without Interactive Reanalysis
almost 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IMS emergency restart

IMS emergency restart should be able to handle the situation where IMS is shutdown ( creating a restart checkpoint ), the cold-started, but cold-start abends before taking any checkpoint. At present IMS emergency restart cannot process across a fa...
about 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

CICS Performance Analyzer 5.2 change Report RECFM to FBA

Output List Datasets out of CICSPA 5.2 Reports with are automatically created with RECFM FBM.This cannot be changed. We need RECFM FBA for printing.
about 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 16 Not under consideration

Display correct channel of a path when a path is offline

I created a situation to alert us when a channel path goes offline. I also created a policy to send a message indicating the actual path that is offline. However the variable that displays the channel that is offline (&WaitOnSituation1:Channel...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TPF XML B2B Parser support of UTF-8

TPF XML B2B Parser support of UTF-8, currently the Parser only supports EBCDIC.
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer and CECI functionality

CECI functionality is currently absent from CICS Explorer.
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration