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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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IMS OTMA utilization of 64-bit memory for the TPIPES

Each TPIPE control block for an IMS OTMA consumes stores of Extended Private Storage from the IMS CTL region. It has associated other control blocks also allocated at Extended Private Storage.Using 64-bit storage could be a very good enhancement.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

UPDATE ING141I MESSAGE TO INCLUDE DETAILS OF THE TEXT SENT

When an alert is successfully set, you get an informational message in the NETLOG: ING141I SENDING OF ALERT 'SEVMINOR' FOR 'CNMPROC/APL/S104' WAS SUCCESSFUL It would be useful if the text sent in the alert could be included.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Support SYSOUT for dynamic file allocation

Enterprise Cobol support dynamic allocation for file (use of an environment variable named with ddname an file parameters in value for allocation).But if we try to allocate a SYSOUT, this raise an error IGZ0251W at run time... It would be desirabl...
about 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in EXITC processing

As requested by IBM, opening an RFE for what was previously in a PMR.PMR: 68273 004 000 Problem Details . Product or Service: Z/TPF 1.1.0 Component ID: 5748T1501 . Operating System: TPF . Problem title STACKVAL dumps (CTL-064009) showing CPS0 in E...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Command to stop IMS debug sub-regions

We are using IBM Debug Tool with the feature "private message regions". Unfortunately, some users forget to stop their private message region at the end of their debug session and it can lead to problems for our system teams when they need to shut...
almost 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

make userdefined extensions for using zUnit available thru preferences

zUnit now only is available for a few extensions for cobol sources. As we do have a few more extensions for cobol sources, we would like to be able to add our extensions to a preference so zUnit also can act on these extensions. We are aware that ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

ADDI - Improve Import IWS Applications with AD Connect

In our test-environment we are currently testing the import of TWS applications into our projects. The performance of this import is very poor. After runstats etc. we see that one query stands out in “Average getpages” (216779,00). Just like the “...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Adding a little bit of TWS to the JCL editor

TWS makes small changes to the JCL. These changes result in errors and warnings marked by the JCL editor within RDz. That way all of our JCLs are wrong and it is very easy to miss real errors in a JCL. Please add TWS variables to the syntax check ...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

CICS Program Newcopy or Phasein to show both current and new lengths (and PHASEIN RES>0)

CICS Program Newcopy or Phasein to show both current and new lengths. Our Code Asset Management (CAM) and Audit department uses the old and new program lengths for comparison of migrated code lengths. If Newcopy or Phasein sucessful; echo the leng...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Force affinity to same LPAR IMS FE for IMS Connect distributed 2PC Global transactions (until implementation of RFE 35707)

Currently a distributed Synclevel 2 global transaction that involves IMS Connect has the restriction that IMS Connect and IMS (and RRS too) have to be on the same LPAR.This is documented in Paragraph "Global (XA) transaction with TCP/IP" of IMS Co...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

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