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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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Logical Record Cache Management (3 of 3) - Need a counter of 'valid entries'

Need a counter of 'valid entries', the current in use counter basically devolves to all the allocated items after a few days (and includes aged-out entries), therefore it provides no useful information. Valid Entries tell me the utilization of the...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Recoverable system heap storage

Need to manage caches like we manage format 2 globals with them coming online at cycle up rather than at the point of first use and being more-or-less ready to go by being pre-populated with saved (e.g. keypointed) data. This is a cache so doesn't...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Easier Migration path for CICS TS Developer Trial v4.2 to full product

After trialling the CICS TS Developer Trial v4.2 offering, it would be good if there was a simple way of migrating to the full CIC TS v4.2 without having to re-install the entire product.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 9 Delivered

zREST zDFDL to suport zDFDL expression for the Code Page Encoding Attribute (and DFDL variable for operationId)

z/TPF's zDFDL transformation needs a parameter to specify Code Page of the target transformed object so that EBCDIC 1047, subset of P1024 Terminal Characters in EBCDIC 1047, and UTF-8. This would avoid loading multiple zSwagger Files and zREST Sys...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

APA - Report msgclass job modification

This RFE is being opened after PMR 36275.122.000.n APA, after running a measure, selecting S on the measure, then option A02, then hit enter, it will show a job, panel called "Report JCL Submission", Where does this job information comes from? Whi...
over 6 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Parsing of a incoming SAML-Bearer-Token

Give a possibility within CICS to parse an incoming SAML-Bearer-Token (presented as a String to CICS) and extract the various information in the SAML-token (like “Issuer”, “X509IssuerName”, “X509SerialNumber”, “NotBefore”, “NotOnOrAfter”, “Audienc...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

Signature-Validation of a incoming SAML-Bearer-Token

Give a possibility within CICS to validate the signature of an incoming SAML-Bearer-Token (presented as a String to CICS)
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

ODBM and IMS DB Universal JDBC Driver Support for ODBM INIT STATUS GROUP at APSB time

Customer applications have problems when they tried to know the IMS db availability before to access to them from the java client application side, but unfortunately there is no interface in JDBC Type 4 mode. The DLICall Interface is not available...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Delivered

New Assembler Macro feature implemented in RDz V8.0.3 does not work well in large shops

Description:The new real-time syntax check feature for assembler macros implemented in RDz 8.0.3 is unworkable in large shops. On just one plex (we have 9) we have 7 different applications that use different PDS libraries. Each application has fro...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

API Required for Random Number Generation on zTPF

Currently IBM has provided SHA-1 and SHA-256 APIs for use under zTPF. For example, we have tpf_SHA256_digest() function calls. There is now support (via PRNO assembler instruction) on TPF to generate pseudo and true random numbers. We'd like IBM t...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

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