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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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Return SOAP Header with trace information

This requirement has been submitted as MR1108126333. IMS region information as an exception trace is not available to the requestor in a Web Services environment. There should be the option to return this information to the caller through a SOAP h...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Dedicated port for SOAP request and MU utilities

This requirement has been submitted as MR0517115255. Currently the SOAP Gateway receives SOAP requests over a certain port (in CS port 18000). The management utility Iogmgmt, the SOAP Gateway Administrative Console and also commands entered from t...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

AXTL create DFHRS message

There is no indication of a connection error prior to transactions abending AXTL. ( no way to alert operations of problem or automatically recover from it. ) We rely on DFHRS21nn messages going through the message domain to automate recovery of LU...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Output Manager download function to create Excel tabs

When a client opts to download an indexed report or one which has multiple custom reports defined it would be very beneficial if the resulting download to Excel format would place the different indexes or custom reports into separate tabs of the s...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Change IMS DFSAAMPR IPCS log record extract function for unqualified dataset names on the entry panel

While testing the new DFSAAMPR (IPCS dump formatter function) for V11 I got a RACF error due trying to allocate an invalidly named dataset. The name being generated by DFSEGDSR/DFSEWDSN was fully qualified in even though I didn't enclose it in apo...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 1 Not under consideration

RDz File Manager DB2 plugin: adding a setting to inactivate 'DB2 editor option' & 'Add query' case sensitivity.

Since DB2 objects like Table names, Database names...etc. are not case sensitive, the input in File manager plugin should not differentiate lower and uppercase. Why 'QUA.customer' could be a different DB2 table than QUA.CUSTOMER for exemple. Users...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

request support for firefox up version 18 for ilmt

provide support for tivoli ilmt gui install
almost 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm 1 Not under consideration

We would like to be able to set the Hourglass date in CICS from a Batch job.

We would like to be able to update the HourGlass date in a CICS region from a batch job, Perhaps by using exci and passing the date to hourglass.
almost 12 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Use the code page from the MQMD for FM view and edit functions

It appears that FM is using the MQ queue manager default code page when viewing or editing an MQ message rather than the code page from the MQMD. This may cause some characters to be displayed and updated incorrectly.
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Global TClass implementation

We need a Global TClass implementation in order to serialize transactions across the CICS. The main reason is to avoid to "force" application developers to change their code using the Global ENQUEU and maximizing the high availability.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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