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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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Ensure that the address of the GWA is aligned on a Doubleword boundary in current CICS releases

During the testing of CICS TS V4 Software AG have discovered that the GWA address provided to the Adabas TRUE was not aligned on a Doubleword, but only on a Fullword. This meant that they could not reliably use a CDS instruction to serialize two c...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Make SPI command SET TASK threadsafe

CICS SPI command SET TASK made threadsafe.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

RPP - Adding a search functionality in the "Generated Code Structure" Window

Evolution request from users contributing to improve developer productivity.In RPP, could you add a button in the "structure of generated code" option to add a display of lines according to a keyword?This keyword would be entered in a preferences ...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Provide capability to share UEPTSTOK

A common UEPTSTOK is provided for all global file control user exits. If there are multiple GLUEs in the same CICS/TS system, there is no facility or published guidance for sharing UEPTSTOK.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Adding lines by pressing ENTER in the description fields

This user-driven demand for change helped to improve the productivity of the developers.In RPP, whatever the type of component (batch, screen, segment, ...), the descriptor area (-Gx) is fixed. To insert a line, click on the button Add. Could you ...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered

Manage MQ access in File Manager

Enhance File Manager to support internal security checking of XFACILIT class profiles in the form: FILEM.sysplex_name.mq_manager.resource_name Where sysplex_name - The z/OS sysplex name. mq_manager - The MQ manager name. resource - The MQ queue na...
over 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

z/TPF Country Centric Data Processing

Description: a. Multiple z/TPF Customers; Travelport, Amex and SABRE, desire an implementation of z/TPF where multiple cross linked z/TPF Systems can selectively host select z/TPF Data in specific Countries b. The implementation will help fu...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

current debugger line in the middle of the editor screen

You start debugging a programm using RDz. Using step by step debugging (F6) some times moves the marked line of the current position in the editor to the bottom of the editor. when it reaches the bottom the text in the editor starts to scroll line...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Delivered

Extend SSL Cert "Client to Server" two way authenication Support to CTG .net functions

We have a requirement to establish an SSL connection between .net clients and a z/OS CTG instance. As with Java, the requirement is to allow the swapping, for authenication, of a pair of certificates; Server and Client, in a bi-directional autheni...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 3 Delivered

RACF groups in distribution lists

I would like to see the ability to use RACF groups in distribution lists.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 4 Delivered