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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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Provide way to suppress unwanted Program Definition Statistics

Program Definition Statistics were added in CICS/TS 4.1.Customer is a large shop with over 50,000 program definitions, These program definition statistics resulted in a very large increase in the numberof SMF records, resulting in SMF buffer full ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHSC2LS need parameter to avoid the generation of single physical members for every datastructure

Problem occurs during DFHSC2LS. The Job generates datastructures based on schema definitions and place them in single physical members. If there are many datastructures in schema-file, then DFHSC2LS generates a huge amount of copybooks which is ve...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Performance Class Monitoring Program Storage HWM fields can be non-sensically high when a program is repeatedly loaded

Performance Class Monitoring Program Storage HWM fields like PC31SHWM are sometimes non-sensically high, approaching 2 gig. This happens when a task EXEC CICS LOADs a program repeatedly without ever doing an EXEC CICS RELEASE. Even though the prog...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

ABEND AITE not for DTIMOUT (GSE Requirement GGCIC11008)

BUSVAL : INVVAL : ENDVAL : GROVAL : SYSVAL : KEYWORDS : UGVOTES : +5=1 +4=1 +3=3 +2=5 +1=7 0=8 -3=1 Abstain=8 Priority=1.8DESCRIPT : We use Java/CTG/CICS-style applications. Due to large memory-usage und automatically resolve SOS-conditions we set...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Extend the EXEC CICS API to provide 'Named Storage' (SHARE Requirement SSCICS11002)

Currently CWA storage is used to anchor SHARED storage acquired by an EXEC GETMAIN FLENGTH(length) SHARED. This solution cause headaches managing the CWA usage. Having Names for storage areas is a MVS and Unix concept needed in ever increasing com...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Should Show LE Release Level at Startup

When CICS starts up and initializes LE it should write a message with the version and release of LE that is being used. This would facilitate problem determination by making the release of LE easy to find.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

security limitations in debug tool

I want to check the permissions of the user, the screen fields in DTCN or CADP, for example, limiting the user to debug only a specific program name or prefix, limiting to a specific user that started the transaction, a particular terminal, and so...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Requester Pipelines forced to code Handler program to alter Container data

Customer is requesting CICS Web Services to be more flexible in allowing applications to alter the contents of the containers DFHPIPM initializes at the start of a Pipeline. The current design validly places this ability into the system programmer...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS TECHNIQUE TO SEND HTTP OUTBOUND USING THE SPECIFIC LOGICAL IP ADDRESS.

The customer has a CICSTS32 acting as an " HTTP client " and using WEB OPEN API. So cics is working as a client doing a HTTP request toan external server . For that cics system uses the default IP address of the stack which is a phisical IP addres...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Obtain the MNI_ENTRY FIELD information in the Identity Class record for a given performance cla

Obtain the MNI_ENTRY FIELD information (distingushed name and realm) in the Identity Class record for a given performance class record. In reading IBMs PDF titled October 2009 beta - identity propagation documentation, I have a question regarding ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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