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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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AD Build Decisions for PL/I source code

See PMR number 31216 999 624:We are using Application Discovery Build Client to build AD projects for applications (mainly) written in PL/I. I noticed the 'Decisions' feature in the Build Client is not supported for PL/I source code, only for COBO...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

re-open empty tabs

If you close Eclipse and re-launch it, and some tabs remain open, you get a message: "No editor descriptor for id org.eclipse.ui.internal.emptyFolderTab". To resolve this, open the file if it is not occupied, or close the tab.
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Reduce CPU usage of writing x'99' logs by zIIP offload

We are planning to use IIDR for IMS for next disaster recovery system. We need to change DBD definitions of source IMS system to write x'99' logs for replication. We conducted performance test on the source IMS system with x'99' logs and CPU cost ...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Do not require password if client certificate provided for PCOMM-FTP

When a client certificate is used (like a PIV/CAC card) for identification to the FTP server then the client should not request a userid or password. The SSL/TLS session is done prior to the credentials and the server could determine the ID to ass...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

CEMT PERFORM SHUTDOWN IMMEDIATE should be protected separately

Provide a mechanism to separate out the permission for performing a normal shutdown vs any other, such as immediate.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

New QUOTREM() builtin

There are times when both the quotient and remainder of a division are important, such as when working with times, where it may be far more convenient to work with minutes or even seconds, then directly with the unwieldy hh:mm[:ss] format.
over 4 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

AD and report list customization

Sun Life Insurance is interested in a capability where they could hide/show reports available in the report list according to their convenience. Also, Sun Life would like to have the feature to rename the reports available in AD report list to som...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

System Events for DSA/EDSA storage threshold

Provide a mechanism similar to the task threshold in system events, so that when the storage allocation exceeds a predefined threshold (in percentage), an event would be emitted.Checking the storage usage percentage could be done when a new extent...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Request to update IBM explorer for zOS to support wildcard filters in middle like AAA*BB*C

During impact analysis, When we try to filter the jobs in Job usage inventory .1. When we use the wildcard as CAU* , it is populating all the jobs where the job name starts with CAU. please find the screenshot. <CAU_Wildcard.png>2. When we t...
about 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence 1 Not under consideration

COMMIT does not free up the locks owned by all DB2 threads

We have a program with VSAM files migrated to DB2 via CICS VSAM Transparency. These files are read & updated each with their own unique DIM per file. The mainline program is calling a new dynamic subroutine which handles all of the commits by ...
almost 9 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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