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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 VUE Inclusion Parm

IMS implementation of VUE (Value Unit Edition) licensing requires a new FMID be applied/accepted, and an ALL gen performed. The presence of the FMID in the dlibs/dzone generates the system as VUE - with no parm to override.We need to support both ...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Obtain a utility like pdsUtil for de sequential DATASET

ZDT comes with a pdsUtil utility that allows PDS modification out of the run of the ZDT instance.That is, it allows the modification of PDS directly on the image file of a disk.We have the same need on a sequential file.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

cicsdp process sleep for ever after it reaches the maximum retries and have to restart cics region for ITM KT8agent connect

If the ITM Kt8 agent is not available, cicsdp process sleeps for ever after it reaches the maximum retries.The customer has to restart region to make cicsdp to reconnect to ITM kt8 agent. It is current design.
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Sonarlint plugin to have option to work with code preprocessor

Our cobol codes goes to a preprocessor to convert to native cobol. Can preprocessing be added to the Sonarlint plugin?
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

CECI equivalent fo CPSM APIs

We have a few CICS programs that make use of CPSM API calls. It would be beneficial to have a CECI-like transaction for use with CPSM API calls. (Refer to SR 02426,082,000)
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

USEREXIT TYPE(IMSMON)

An IMSMON type user exit is not notified of termination when it is deleted by IMS as the result of a REFRESH USEREXIT command. This occurs if it was removed from a list of exits defined in the same USEREXIT definition. For example if XXX was remov...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

Provide batch program to read temporary storage queues

Provide CICS batch utility to browse temporary storage queues.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

WEB SEND should allow options to be provided with values indicating the option is to be ignored

EXEC CICS WEB SEND should be enhanced allow all options to be provided as long as all of the options are set to values such that they do not conflict with one another. This would allow a single "WEB SEND" command to be used where some of the optio...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

SLDSREAD to retry automatically on secondary dataset

Testing the new feature SLDSREAD on IMS v11 and we have found a situation that we think is not correct. IMS always tries to mount the primary SLDS dataset even though it has an i/o error, it has been deleted or it has been marked in error. Several...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Mechanism to sysplex Load Balance transaction requests needed to process CICS/MQ messages

Mechanism for sysplex Load Balancing of the number of transaction requests needed to process CICS/MQ messages and the number of applications processing information relating to the transaction requests. A message arriving on the message queue might...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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