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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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Service required rebuild of Local and Global Catalogs does not force INITIAL start

On occasions, changes to CICS product code by PTFs requires the CICS Global and Local Catalogs to be redefined - an example of the wording il the PTF HOLD data is: "The Global and Local Catalogs will need to be deleted, redefined and initialized t...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

JES Purge via RDz

We are unable to purge a job from JES via RDz. When we attempt to purge a job, the below message is shown in the JMON log:ACF04056 ACCESS TO RESOURCE MVS.MCSOPER.JMON TYPE ROPR BY TSO91DU NOT AUTHORIZED Our MVS Operations team considers this acces...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Better parsing of LISTCAT output by dsfilter

Using the zOS Open Automations Utilities (zOAU) "dls" command to list datasets, there were inconsistencies in the returned output where at times, some datasets would not be found. The "dsfilter" utility, which is used by "dls" command, calls LISTC...
over 4 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Not under consideration

IMS Dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB

To be able to activate the dynamic modifications from the PROCLIB. For example, modifications of DB POOLS by reading DFSVSM*. So that the updates of the Proclib be validated.
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 3 Not under consideration

Integrate SRCHFOR into FINDTEXT in DSC(Data Set Commander for z/os)

The current FINDTEXT command in DSC (Data Set Commander for z/OS ) is much slower than ISPF native command SRCHFOR, is it possible to integrate SRCHFOR command in DSC ?
almost 7 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 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...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Policy build report improvements.

We have a single policy database that contains Sandpit systems. We would like to perform a full build of the policy database, but to have the flexibility to exclude test systems as we're not interested in these. This would significantly improve ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 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

DWC's job log to show the JCL Directive of the Fetch Member the same as command 'J' in IzWS.

DWC's job log to show the JCL Directive of the Fetch Member the same as command 'J' in IzWS. Currently, the job log only show what's in JES job log which required extra step to do command 'J' in IzWS to see JCL Directive of the Fetch Member. 'J' c...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 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 ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

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