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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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Listing down all the Macros in the ADDI project similar to Includes please

Can we get the option of listing down all the Macros in the project similar to Includes please? Similar to Cobol copybooks we need option of listing down all the Macros. This RFE has been created as discussed with Yip (yiplf@sg.ibm.com) & Tim ...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

zunit usermod detects DB2, IMS, LE, MQ that are in different zones

Today there are no automatic way to detect that the DTR, LE, IMS or DB2 modules has been updated in the other SMP/E zone. We are using multiple zones independent of each other and the solution that IBM offers does not work for us. solution: Zun...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Improve ability to define structures with power-of-2 size

When writing assembler code, it is often desirable or even necessary to define a structure with a length that is an integral power of 2. Reasons for such might be to avoid crossing a cache-line boundary; to be able to allocate an array of structur...
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

AD - Support for GSAM file usage

Non-Hogan programs frequently use GSAM for file access so that programs can use checkpoint restart. The files accessed via GSAM are not shown as files on the call-graph. Nor are they shown as IMS databses
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow Association data to pass named areas to allow multiple applications to use association data.

This is a repeat of the earlier RFE 67116. The request is to allow a named area of storage, potentially like a container or an area associated with a program or exit, to flow along with the task association data. The data should be able to be set ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Request to retain PSB and DBD COMMENTS in IMS Explorer toolset & IMS Catalog

Travelers needs both the IMS Explorer toolset and the IMS Catalog to retain PSB/DBD COMMENTS. We have historical tracking comments at the top of our PSBs and DBDs. The comments we want to keep are at the top. We don't care about the ones in the mi...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

Panel EQQAMTMP "not started action" cannot be used with "EVERY" repeating jobs

Jobs that are scheduled using the EVERY repeat Run-Cycle Option do not have an operation start/end time in the database entry. When the schedule is interrupted by some event and none of the jobs run for several cycles, it would be useful to have I...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance program call graph to not show unused Db2 calls referenced by commented PERFORM statement.

Currently in AD v6.0.1 program call graph shows unused SQL call statements of select/insert/update/delete from sections or para even if the calling PERFORM statement was commented out. Ideally those SQL calls are considered as dead codes as it wil...
over 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

EPLI V4.3 generated code compares badly to OS PL/I V2.3 generated code

In a very grey past, I was taught that the best way to initialize an array of structures was to use either array_of_struc(1) = '';array_of_struct(*) = array_of_struct(1); or, if this initialisation had to be done multiple times, to create a STATIC...
about 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Create a suffixed DFSVC000 after IMS SYSGEN

Hi, In a SMP configuration with several IMS in the same target files.All the IMS have not the same IMSID in IMSCTRL macro the last IMS that has been SYSGENed, overrides DFSVC000 (SDFSRESL library) with its own IMSID A suffix membre for DFSVC00* wo...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration