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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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Cics Liberty local server.xml deployment

For a developper it is not possible to take a local server.xml or parts of it and be sure, that the same configuration is used in cics. We can now build something, to hack the created server.xml or to overwrite it, but this is not really nice. Wha...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Delivered

New message ID for CF structure usage decreasing

Either modify DFHXQ0411I and DFHXQ0412I, or create separate message IDs analogous to them, except making it clear whether usage is increasing or decreasing
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

zospt spring boot support

We see, that there are a lot of spring boot apps in our company - amount increasing. They all will be deployed to openshift + tomcat. We can't do anything against this trend as there is no alternative on the mainframe. The idea now would be to hav...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3 Delivered

Stateful z/TPF ECB: Allow one JAVA instance to execute a singular z/TPF ECB across multiple invocations

TPS, CITI's z/TPF based Financial Authorization system envisions using IBM's JAVA support for business solutions. The business logic would be developed in JAVA and in one JAVA instance, multiple calls would need to be made to z/TPF in order to exe...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

LPEX should totally verify JCL statements

I opened a PMR (25284) about "invalid control of LPEX for IF THEN ELSE statements in JCL".We have been told that LPEX is not designed to verify completly JCL statements.We think that LPEX should entirely verify JCL statements syntax, as it does fo...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Add Option to suppress IPV0030I and IPV0031I Messages

Currently the ADFzCC-Server issues an IPV0030I and an IPV0031I-mesage for every request that is issued from the Fault Analyzer RDz-Client. These are written to the Unix System log and through this are routed to our system console. According to the...
almost 7 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Delivered

Link to Liberty CDI Bean Support

We are just implementing an Mail send Routine in CICS Liberty, which should be called from PL/1 and Batch (with EXCI+Container). So fare so good. As the developer now deployed his liberty application it was very curious to see, that the CDI Beans ...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Error Message on PLI for AIX: Fetchable not found should contain name of missing fetchable

Similar to z/OS the PLI Compiler on AIX should output the name of a not found fetchable with the printed error-message.
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

La prévisualisation des modifications oblige à fermer tous les éditeurs ouverts

Il est pénalisant de devoir fermer tous les éditeurs ouverts pour pouvoir faire une prévisualisation de modifications. Est-il possible de faire évoluer le produit à fin de ne pas devoir fermer les éditeurs ouverts avant prévisualisation ?
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

PLIDUMP should provide the byte offset to the location of the current record in the I/O Buffer

PLIDUMP should provide the byte offset to the location of the current record in the I/O Buffer
almost 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered