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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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Allow CL/Supersesson to use fully qualifier VTAM APPL names

I would like to define VTAM applications on my Supersession menus to use the fully qualified name if needed if name conflicts can't be resolved.
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to convert subfields in SDF to IDz BMS maps

Customer is currently working on conversion of maps from SDF to IDz BMS maps editor.Using IDz BMS Map Editor, subfields do not import over to IDz. IDz does not currently support subfields.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Eliminate the key limitation for CF Data Tables

CICS limits the key length to 16bytes for CF Data Tables. This limits many of our files(read only kind) not eligible for CFDT. We like IBM to eliminate the key length limitation for the CFDT.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS Task Policy to handle poison message and MQ Backouts

CICS Task Policy for MQ Backout Count handle Poison messages. Task Policy for MQ, if Backout Threshold exceeded in the MQMD put the message to the MQ Backout Queue Defined in the MQ Header and Abend Task. If no Backout Queue defined, the task beha...
almost 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Support JAVA 11 for Historical Data Archiver for enabling reporting feature in TDWC.

Add Support for JAVA 11 for the Historical Data Archiver that loads DB2 data into the reporting feature in the DWC.
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Proposal for a new C5(MSG) CICS Translator suboption to produce a warning message instead of runtime abend due to excessive COMMAREA length

In new CICS releases the LINK program using a COMMAREA > 32 K produces LENGERR abend. Mitigating the abend to a warning message would facilitate the process to a newer CICS versions (>v5.4).
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

LPEX editor : new preference to save blank lines in a VB member of a PDSE as records with length 1

In our environment our PL/1 source libraries are PDSE libraries with RECFM=VB and LRECL=259 When we add a blank line to a member of such a library with the ISPF editor a record is created containing 1 blank (length 1) However when we add a blank l...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Enhance IRLM to detect cross-subsystem deadlocks

Today the Internal Resource Lock Manager (IRLM) of IMS is not able to communicate with the IRLM of DB2. This causes cross-subsystem deadlock situations not to be detected and not to be resolved. Because such cross-subsystem deadlocks could not be ...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Set a default value to a given service field exposed as Boolean for a service.

To expose a given service field as Boolean, select we select the Boolean option in the Override data type property of the Edit Field wizard. But we cannot find any possibility to set a default value.
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 5 Not under consideration

RDz: Setting .hce defaults before the file is created

We run RDz using a virtual server that all users start their instances of RDz from. When a user creates a new connection the emulator defaults to use unsecure telnet on port 23 and these settings are saved in the workspace .hce file. We'd like an ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration