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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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the "find all" in the cobol editor

have the "find all" function in the COBOL Editor as for the LPEX editor
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Naming of the Omegamon XE agents

Each zOS based Omegamon product agent has its own method of determining the hostname for the agent. This naming is hard coded and the methodology can be different between the different agents. Thats's why it is necessary to get the CTIRA_HOSTNAME ...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Multiple RESLIB levels support for DBRC API

Currently, to use DBRC API, the IMS RESLIB must be allocated to a job. This requirement becomes a problem when a tool that needs to access to multiple RECON sets that are at different IMS levels. DBRC API should allow for an option on the STARTDBR...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

CICSPlex wide support TRANCLASS

TRANCLASS definitions should be able to be defined as CICSPlex wide, rather than only region wide. This would ensure that the MAXACTIVE value is for the entire CICSPlex.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS region synchonization

CICS needs to provide a mechanism to ensure that CICS regions can be synchronized at start up with an existing instance. This would require that a new instance of a CICS region checks a common source (e.g. CF date table) for current state of resou...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

RFE for Pipeline PRVIDENH corrupted; possible HFS access conflict issue

Overview of the issue : The pipeline is getting disabled when there is a problem copying the configuration file from the HFS directory. (Please refer to the PMR "82719 122 000 " for more details). Enhancement : As suggested per the PMR, we would l...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

Data Binding for XML and JSON

The standard industry approach to handling JSON and XML payloads is to use a data binding solution (has objects that serialize and deserialize XML or JSON streams directly). Data Bindling objects are compiled from message specifications e.g. XSD f...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

IMS "wsdl first" WebServices: Reduce size of DFSPWSH message header (i.e. @dfs_async_msg_header)

Every web service request and response contains a first segment to transfer meta data, i.e. the @dfs_async_msg_header included DFSPWSH. The size of this header is fix for every request/response and is more then 5KB, mainly because of large field d...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Copy selected fields from a record returned from SQL query

User want to have a feature to copy selected fields in a record from SQL results. Currently the copy option apply to whole record.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

* selection for Dictionary API

Require a name extraction API from the new Dictionary (replacement for ACBLIB).The current API allows extraction of IDBD and IPSB defined database and program specifications.In addition to this we require a API that allows all or some information ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration