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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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Enterprise Cobol V6 - Add a clause to limit Table SORT to first elements

The SORT instruction is used to sort a memory table, but the table may not have been fully populated and only the first elements of the table must be sorted. The SORT instruction should have a clause allowing to indicate which elements are to be s...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

User build: the dependencies not in the pending changes are not always in the PDS related to the team build

We would like to deploy user build across our organization. But we have a problem with the way it selects dependencies through the 2 options available on page 2. The first option selects the pending changes to load. They involve dependencies disco...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 6 Not under consideration

Bedre soap fault message

we are running with z/os sysplex distributor in front of CICS webservice so we have a lot of CICS that take webservice request. when we are getting a 4038 error from a webservice program on cics we are getting this soap fault<ERROR_MESSAGE> ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS TS Business Event and Web Services SOAP and JSON Support

CICS TS BE doesn't let you to capture events on EXEC CICS LINK when it is issued by DFH modules with some exceptions and a recent APAR extend to DFHMIRS this capability. I think that it is important let to capture an event though EXEC CICS LINK al...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

request to support packaging the fda7.jar at the EAR level

When moving the fda7.jar at the EAR level, EGL Web service fails with error Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: EGL1603E An error occurred while loading the com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService service. Error: com.ibm.support.myservice.MyService_I...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Run CICS JVMSERVERs completly on 64bit Memory Above the bar to avoid 31bit memory constrains

Rigth now, we can only run approx 6-7 JVMSERVERs due to 31bit memory constrains It would be really helpful to be able to Run CICS JVMSERVERs completly on 64bit Memory Above the bar allowing to increase the amount of JVMSERVERs per CICS Region.
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

IDz USS support for ENDEVOR

USS support for ENDEVOR which is already possible from the z/OS host ISPF environment should also be possible for the IDz client
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Rule to detect SELECT * in RPP designs

SELECT * is not a good way to get columns in DB2. RSA rules for RPP detects SELECT * only in specific code.
about 3 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Add support in URIMAP for hostname with underscore

URIMAP resource definitions do not allow for hostname values that contain an underscore character. This makes CICS unable to interact with some remote services, just because of a naming restriction. Also, this behavior seems inconsistent with an u...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Option for identifying unreachable and easily removable code.

We would like to suggest an option like the rules suboptions NOUNREF* for marking unreachable code.We are aware that compiling with OPT(2) will give us informationals for unreachable code, but sometimes it can be difficult to determine if the code...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

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