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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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Add an option to bypass the EQAUEDAT exit for Fault Analyzer

For DoITT NYC, we modified the EQAUEDAT exit routine to bypass the invocation by Fault Analyzer. This was specialized code that did nothing when calling the EQAUEDAT exit when the calling program is IDIDA. With this change, future customers reques...
over 6 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

CICS Request Exit to provide client IP address

CICS Request Exit getCICSServer() method is provided with a map containing meta-data related to the application request. However, it does not contain IP address of the originating client machine.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered

Make &APPLID available for MQCONN INITQNAME

We are in the research/planning phase for installing CICS/TS 4.2 (upgrade from 3.2). We found that the MQ INITPARM has been converted to an RDO definition. This means that we will have to have a separate MQCONN definition for each region that conn...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Provide use of the cursor designated field name with the MONITOR LIST GROUP command

When using the 3270 interface for the debugger, you can use the MONITOR LIST command, and put your cursor under a field, and press enter. The field name is automatically picked up and the data is monitored in the monitor window. However when doing...
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Delivered

Make program and transaction available to the CICS Request Exit for XA transactions

For ECI requests within XA transactions, Program name and Tranid are not available to the CICS Request Exit within the supplied request meta data request. They are available under non-XA transactions.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered

Customer requires new "Print Member" API call to be used when requesting "Open current output listing" of Endevor element

When selecting the Option ?L' for listing on the CARMA ?Print Element' (RFE screen print #1.doc) screen, we require the API transaction to Print Member instead of Print Listing be called. It is our understanding that the PDS name to find the listi...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 5 Delivered

Filtered Collection Query by ObjectId

Add an option in the configuration for Filtered Collections to allow queries by just the original Object ID (file address).
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Put full conditional expression on decision box in flowchart.

Place full conditional expression on decision boxes of flowchart.It is necessary for both analyze client flowchart graph view and it's output file.

Selecting programs for Program Inventory Report.

Instead of selecting programs from the list in Explore Tab in Analyze client, users can create Program Inventory Report on a list of programs that are specified in an importing file.It is also desirable that importing file can be a CSV file export...

Dataset Flow graphs displays attributes on data flow links.

In dataset flow graph, only datasets and data flow links are displayed.There shall be printed a set of Job, Job step, and program name on each data flow links.