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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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Update message in list of line commands menu

It indicates the line command (YELLOW) can also be entered. I know the column is labeled LineCmd. However, a customer pointed out that his emulator is customized with different colors which makes this notation incorrect.
almost 7 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Build Client Check - Exclusion List

Make the Build Client Check Report more accurate, smaller, and useful

DIAG dump or informational message for Common Blocks

We have an issue within our PSS Loosely Coupled Environment where we have very busy activity in different periods of the day, and as a result, the size of the Ready List (as well as CROSS at times) is increased by Common Block. Our Common Block is...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Delivered

Allow override of HPO SIT parm in PARM; add RACF/ESM facility resource to control use

Our shop maintains CICS regions for multiple business units, some of which utilize HPO=YES, and others which specify HPO=NO. Our intent to migrate toward use of a common base SIT (DFHSIT6$) is therefore thwarted by the non-overridability of the HP...
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

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...
almost 7 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
almost 7 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...
almost 7 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...
about 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 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...
about 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 ...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered