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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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Enhance Java Doc API when saving job output to describe default encodings

The Java doc for DBB is not specifying the default encodings which are used for any of the saveOutput() methods https://www.ibm.com/docs/api/v1/content/SS6T76_2.0.0/javadoc/com/ibm/dbb/build/JobExec.html#saveOutput-java.io.File- Methods which don'...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

I need to be able to specify: "Run this step only if all previous step gave cond code less than 5"

“EGL Generation Guide, Version 7 Release 5.1. Chapter "Overview of COBOL generation", "Modifying EGL build scripts for z/OS", "EXEC statement" shows, that COND with no stepname is allowed. And I really need to be able to specify: "Run this step on...
over 1 year ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

CHANNEL DFHTRANSACTION from CTG, to have the special CICS transactional properties of DFHTRANSACTION

Reduce storage overhead of having a CHANNEL coming into CICS from CTG and explicitly creating DFHTRANSACTION in CICS with the request payload from CTG Channel. Have CTG and CICS products work together to create the special container. Reduce Coding...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

Symbolic Support for the CTG Environment Member

Using SYMOBLIC Substitution in the CTG Environment member.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

HOD toolkit integration with EHLLAPI

Need to enable EHLLAPI property in TOOLKIT which will help to integrate mainframe applications with Pega software Automation tool - Robotic Desktop Automation. As per HOD development team, this feature is not present in existing product. Hence rai...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Documentation doesn't mention soft link for /usr/bin/env which seems to be needed for scripts to work properly

Having this mentioned in documentation may save a big number of hours of debugging everyone's first build process with DBB and groove. The user responsible for running dbb builds has Bash set as their default shell (configured via OMVS PROGRAM set...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Planned for future release

Autostart session in full screen

Current HACPEE behavior is that when a session is opened it starts on a default size and in order to set it on full screen the user has to click on the full screen button. The desired behaviour would be to have a setting that allows the session to...
over 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls

Add intercept of IMS AERTDLI calls. See case TS013086777. Thanks
over 1 year ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Showing originating user for request from SMU in the netlog

We are in the middle of implementing SMU for our colleagues . To see if anyone is using SMU and if so, who is using it, I noticed that the netlog does not show the actual user for a request. For example I performed a move for a movegroup, using SM...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Planned for future release

Change requirement for one HLQ for the IMS RE runtime libraries

We have a shop standard where authorized libraries have a HLQ that is different from non-authorized libraries. In my case APFDA for authorized libraries, SYSPDA for non-authorized libraries. This is causing issues installing and using the IMS Data...
over 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Planned for future release