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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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Enterprise Cobol V4/V6 - Support LARGE or EXTENDED format for SYSUTn

When the compiler work files are declared as LARGE or EXTENDED format, explicitly by JCL (DSNTYPE=LARGE), or implicitly by an SMS dataclass, the compiler triggers an S213-14 abend. The compiler should support LARGE and EXTENDED type format on the ...
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Support for PseudoRBA IAM files

We have a client that is requesting support for PseudoRBA IAM files. They use PseudoRBA for claim history files which can be quite large. File Manager did not copy their history files and maintain PseudoRBA, but they did not get a copy error eithe...
almost 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Hourglass Duplicate Batch Job control records

Hourglass permits duplicate Batch job name control records (with different Date/Time changes) , which introduces the problem that a Job will be intercepted by Hourglass with an incorrect Date
almost 6 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Rational Host on Demand needs to add blink capability to HABEANS

Blink, BlinkRemapModel, capability needs to be added to the Host On-Demand SWT beans component .
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

init for alias

If you define an alias you may want some default init values for that type.If you would can add the init attribute to the type definition and use the value(::) keyword on the allocation, similar to define structure, you can use specific init value...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

COBOL V5+ Recursion Protection for File Declaratives

If an abnormal file condition is "protected" by a COBOL declarative routine and this routine closes the file the file status becomes 00 and another write attempt by the application will fail again driving the declarative again, thus creating a loop.
almost 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Need option to copy connections and userids when creating new CICS Explorer workspace

When creating a new work space in CICS explorer, user is given the option to copy the work bench layout and the working sets but not the connections or users meaning that they have to be manually entered again when using the new work space.
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CIUUPDB Inefficient duplicate processing

The Collector files contain a lot of info gathered over a number of years and it appears that the Batch job CIUUPDB process s every record even though there is just a few new updates in the collector files that need processed. We would like a way ...
almost 6 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide an option to reduce report output from CIUUPDB (focus on STEP091)

The amount of output produced by the jobs is massive in particular STEP091. Is there a way can reduce this for unnecessary output or could that be linked to the problem described in RFE #129515?
almost 6 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Move LSR Pools above the bar

We would like to see the LSR pools moved above the bar for CICS.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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