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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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FA report of "Hexadecimal notation dump storage"

This customer , big steel company in Japan is using FA V9 in z/OS 1.10 And they encounter the problem when they see FA report of "Hexadecimal notation dump storage".The problem is that single-byte KATAKANA characters become garbage data and they c...
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

cannot debug big program with IBM COBOL for AIX

For 32-bit applications, the debug format on AIX, stabstrings, uses a two byte field for storing line numbers. Therefore the line numbers that can be represented are 0 - 65535. Therefore source files with more than 65535 lines will cause difficult...
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Browsing data in SNGL mode issue

Browsing data in SNGL mode issue -- It appears when browsing a file in SNGLE mode and you come across a record with no template, it keeps the previous template on the screen. Not sure if this behavior is expected, but it appears others have this i...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DFH$MOLS option to pass all SMF records with EXTEND and decompress DB2 SMF

1. The DFH$MOLS utility EXPAND option uncompresses the SMF 110 Subtype 1 records, but it does not write any other SMF records to its output. An option to pass all input records into the output when EXPAND is specified is needed, and the output mus...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Extent support for LMS CA-Librarian to include Find/Change (FCH) access to CA-Librarian members

File Manager currently supports access to CA-Librarian data members but this only extends to retrieving Cobol Copybooks, PLI Includes and HLASM dsects. The new feature would extend CA Librarian support to include Find and Change (FCH) capability a...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

allow DT Remote users to limit debugging to one session at a time

allow DT Remote users to limit debugging to one session at a time (and suppress the multi-session capability.) MQ / CICS scenario - where MQ is initiating many transaction of the same name makes remote session useless
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

SwKBT - Catalogs import/export performance

Manual load of the IBM catalogs takes hours to complete. Would like to see this streamlined to shorten the durations. Perhaps smaller catalogs by application types.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Masking in File Manager Compares issue for File Manager V12 and V11

doesnt list which copybook had the error. there are about 10 different copybooks in the template. with a multi copybook layout this small, it s not that hard to tell which copybook it came from, however, with some of the bigger templates (50+ copy...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add 64-bit CICS Explorer for Linux

Currently,IBM CICS Explorer for Linux is 32-bit only. If running a "pure" 64-bit Linux operating system (OS), such as "Slackware for the x86_64 architecture", or Slackware64 for short (see http://www.slackware.com/), the current CICS Explorer for ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

Shared Frame Write For CICS Data Table

This RFE is for an enhancement to the EXEC CICS WRITE to support a SHARED FRAME option for a CICS Data Table write. A SHARED FRAME WRITE would mean that when a program does a WRITE to a CICS data table with the proposed SHARED FRAME option, the un...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 7 Not under consideration

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