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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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Add FTP functionality to the CICS environment.

Allow CICS to function as an FTP client and/or server using APIs for the various languages.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide INQUIRE support for XPI enqueues

Add support for XPI enqueues to the API EXEC CICS INQUIRE UOWENQ command or create an XPI INQUIRE equivalent.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Distributed routing program not invoked for terminal related EXEC CICS START if transaction definition specifies REMOTESYSTEM

Distributed routing program not invoked for terminal related EXEC CICS START if transaction definition specifies REMOTESYSTEM parameter.User specifies DYNAMIC(YES) ROUTABLE(YES) and REMOTESYSTEM parameters on the CICS transaction definition but th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

End CWS Transaction if Socket is RESET

Our customer has a three Tier application with a client, borker and CICS linked together with TCP/IP using CWS on the CICS side. The broker has a 30 second time-out where it will terminate the connection sending a "TCP/IP Reset" back to CICS. Base...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Have EXEC CICS INQUIRE return all the values that can be specified on EXEC CICS CREATE

You can issue an EXEC CICS CREATE TRANSACTION and specify forexample TPURGE(NO), or EXEC CICS CREATE FILE and specify NSRGROUP(xxxxxxxx). However when you issue and EXEC CICS INQ TRANSACTION or EXEC CICS INQ FILE it will not show TPURGE or NSRGROU...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CETR showing the status of special tracing

Once CETR is used to activate special tracing for a terminal or transaction, there is no external way to see if special tracing is still enabled.Excessive CPU usage was found to be the result of activating special tracing for one or more transacti...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Track RLS quiesce and unquiesce time through monitoring records.

Set up monitoring points to record the times it takes to quiesce and unquiesce RLS files.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

differences between CEDA and CMCI

By using CEDA EX GR i can set a request with group *name* as qualifier. So I get all the values of groups which have the groupname part ‘'name'' in it. In CICS Explorer in resource group definition I can not set the first asterisk as a generic ide...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Need way to view everything a CSYSDEF is involved in.

As part of CICS/CPSM administration and planning, a user needs to know all the resources that a CICS System Definition plays a roll in. For example, if they are going to clone the region, they need to know everything about it - what CICS groups it...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Added parmeters to WEB EXTRACT to unescape and escape

The customer would like to have an option on the WEB EXTRACT command to allow the programmer to specify whether the unescape or escape is done
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration