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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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Some SuperC options should cater for longer lines

A number of SuperC compare options are currently rejected for datasets with an LRECL > 256: ISRS013W CERTAIN "DO NOT PROCESS" OPTIONS ARE REJECTED DUE TO LI NE LENGTHS > 256. OPTIONS RESERVED FOR PROGRAM SOURCE DATA. ISRS016W MOVE LINE DETEC...
almost 4 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Enhanced Sysplex Distributor Support for z/OS Connect - SERVERWLM for DVIPAs

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
4 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) to support 62x160 screen size in IDZ v16

Please support 62x160 screen size in Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) in IDZ v16. Users can use this screen size in Host Emulator before in IDZ v15, however this screen size didn't support in IDZ v16 RCE. We have a wide number of ISPF applications...
9 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Support for wildcard in DDL DROP for IMS Databases and PSBs

We refresh and rebuild test environment from production where we cleanup everything in test and build using the components from production by changing component names. So we could use DDL DROP with wildcard where we can erase the test definitions ...
9 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Timeout values for CICS Web Support inconsistent

Allow CICS web support calls to specify a timeout value as part of the API call, so that the application can control how long to wait for each request.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

RFE for IMS Signon Re-Verificatioin

Provide a run-time IMS parm in DFSPB000 that will allow both password and passphrase re-verification to be activated / de-activated more dynamically than coding the DFDSINTX0 exit routine to set the SCDPVER bit on in the SCD. Also, consider a type...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Boolean support and bit manipulation

Support for Standard COBOL "Boolean support and bit manipulation".This includes (but is not limited to those I might have overlooked):- Boolean data PICTURE clause, i.e.: USAGE DISPLAY PICTURE 1.- USAGE BIT, i.e.: USAGE BIT PICTURE 1(8).- GROUP-US...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Kerberos support for pcomm 3270 sessions

For 5250 Sessions kerberos is implemented and available. Since we have customers running pcomm to connect to z-Series with 3270 sessions we would like to have kerberos support for the 3270 session types.
over 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 3 Not under consideration

Differentiate the GDPS operations for the Normal CFs and the Standby CFs that are normally deactivated

Differentiate the GDPS operations for the "Normal" CFs and the "Standby" CFs that are normally deactivated. The customers need that the GDPS in its Coupling Facility operations differentiates between the "Normal" Coupling Facilities and the "Stand...
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

COBOL function hbound() for tables

COBOL has no easy way to check a table index or subscript against the OCCURS [... TO] {n} TIMES value. You can define an OCCURS constant to check against, but this requires application maintenance correctly preserve the correspondence when the tab...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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