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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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Read/Write to a HFS (or zFS) file from CICS in a API

To natively read and write to a USS member in a HFS or ZFS file in CICS using a EXEC CICS API. These files should be dynamically allocated when invoked. This would allow a programmer to read a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file (or any other type of fil...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) - Transaction flow control

Have ability to issue command to turn off flow of work thru the CICS Transaction Gateway, at the Transaction Level. /F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANDIABLE,DRP1/F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANENABLE,DRP1/F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANSHOW This would turn off workflow to the backe...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Methods on TUI fields

More methods on TUI fields are needed. E.g. is field protected, is field unprotected.In other words: If you can say "set field xx" then you should also be able to say "if (field is xx)". Some of the attributes, e.g. colors, can be grouped and it w...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

EGL TUI form shall behave like a container

It shall be possible to walk through the form fields such that a getFirst method returns a reference to the position wise first field, and a getNext method returns a reference to the next field, again position wise. A field reference, obtained usi...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

api mapping supports base64 convert

provide a function in api mapping to convert from base64 to plain text
over 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Data Flow Diagram in RAA is missing from ADDI

Data flow : Data flow diagrams for data element or DB2 column used in a program) the way IDz implemented that is to build the RAA in-memory data model from IDz's program parse AST --and-- than call RAA functionality in JARs provided to walk the in...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

ICH408I for DFHSJ0210 security error

DFHSJ0210 should produce an ICH408I when a security exception occurs and to provide an absolute path to any missing file or directory.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Make the SHUTDWN parameter of MSGQUEUE macro overridable

Make the SHUTDWN parameter of the MSGQUEUE macro overridable with a new parameter in the DFSPBxxx proclib member or in any other proclib member
over 8 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Update QueryEnq service to return a unique identifier (ASID or JOBID)

The QueryEnq service is great for returning ENQ information for one or more resources, but the returned data is not complete. The JobName in particular is not sufficient to identify a single job, TSO user or STC. The QueryEnq service should be enh...
over 8 years ago in IBM Data Set Commander 2 Not under consideration

IMS SOAP Gateway does not account for running whilst IMS is inactive

If IMS SOAP Gateway is active, and the IMS system or datastore is shutdown, then IMS SOAP Gateway issues many repeated error messages until IMS is active again.In some cases this fills up the JES spool to the point that reactive measures are requi...
over 5 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

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