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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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Origin Data to be passed for DTP and ASYNC flows

For transaction tracking purposes it is important that a transactions has some information about the parent transaction. The ADCB doesn't have information for DTP transactions and some of the ASYNC flows (e..g START with TERMID). The ORIGIN DATA i...
about 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration

Better performance by converting STCK to STCKF instructions in CPS0

PJ39153 on PUT08 introduced code in CCCTIN to convert several STCK instructions to STCKF instructions if the store-clock-fast facility is installed. Fast forward to 2017 and TPF will "not IPL correctly or run as intended on a machine earlier than ...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

New COBOL Compile Option: Global ON SIZE ERROR

When you want to handle overflow conditions and want to avoid truncated fields you have to code the ON SIZE ERROR statement for all computational statements.This is tedious work.In addition any decimal overflows conditions were suppressed by Langu...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enhance the sum() builtin function and add two siblings

The SUM builtin function is a very useful feature of PL/I. However, unlike many other builtin functions it does not accept structures as argument.
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Creation of a QUIET parameter in Supersession

Create a Quiet parameter in Supersession that creates fewer messages that are logged into the TLVLOG for normal circumstances. Currently the logging of messages is considerable, and most are unnecessary unless trying to PD a problem. There is curr...
over 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Set LL value for IMS msg

A middleware application at the bank is responsible for sending data from branch applications back to IMS on the host and process the response back. The middleware team is looking to modernize this application to communicate to IMS using z/OS Conn...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

URIMAP and restfull api

When running RESTFUL API it will be nice if it is possible to run different tran names for the same URI based on the method GET/POST and so onso some users are only able to see datat but not update them we are using liberty in CICS
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS Handling of bad HTTP requests

Hello IBM Support, Security requirements use vulnerability scanners to 'ping' CICS, and these lead to false positives. A scanner may produce an error, that's not really an error...can CICS be enhanced to handle http errors better? Thank youJohn Ca...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

LPEX editor should hilight debug lines depending on setting

Similar to the COBOL editor, LPEX should highlight debug lines (lines with 'D' in column 7) depending on the existence of the 'With Debugging Mode' phrase of Source Computer command.COBOL editor highlights these as active code or as comment lines,...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Single Sign On with Open ID Connect in HACP EE

HACP EE is a web application which offers a zero foot print host accessFor customers who want to access HACP EE using single sign on should be able to do so using OIDC or Open Id Connect. It is a modern standard for exchanging authenticated end us...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

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