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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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RPP : Pas d'affichage des longueurs des formats sur les rubriques

Dans RPP, sur l'onglet ? definition ?, nous ne retrouvons pas l'information sur la longueur associ?e ? chaque format de rubrique Cf. document joint.
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

RPP : Amelioration ergonomie affichage entite utilisateur

Sur les ?crans d'affichage, nous souhations pouvoir disposer syst?matiquement des informations n?description - libell? description sur :- L'onglet overwiev- L'onglet description via un choix par d?faut
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Granular KDE TRANSPORT OPTIONS parameter

Creating a product unique versions of KAG_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_OPTIONS, following the normal naming scheme this would be KXX_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_OPTIONS, where XX is the product identifier. This parameter value in configuration generally has the “SKIP:XX” ...
over 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide the JSON source to CICS when running z/OS Connect within a CICS Liberty Profile JVM

The architectural component of our online applications interrogates the data stream passed from various input channels to determine process options based on fields embedded in the message. The message format is variable by service and may contain ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

CICS EDF Tool - Read Only Mode

The CICS Execution Diagnostic Facility (EDF) is a tool to debug CICS application programs, that use the CICS application programming interface (API). EDF runs as a CICS transaction that can be invoked using the CEDF transaction identifier. Most of...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Delivered

Possibility to export the result from the “usage search” view.

Possibility to export the result from the ?usage search? view. Right click on a Data Element entity.It would be convenient to export the result from the view ?usage search? to a *.csv file.(Please see attached file for details)
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

suppress(nopaddings)

When building with rule NOPADDING the compiler generates a warning for each struct that contains paddings. I want to suppress this warning for certain structs as i consciously accept the paddings. I suggest to introduce something similar to "suppr...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Externally managed User Lists

Externalize the userIDs and passwords in the User List function so that the client can update the passwords without modifying, rebuilding and deploying a new application. For example in the User List section allow for an external properties file t...
over 9 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 3 Delivered

IMS OTMADESC MQFORMAT free field

To define an OTMADESC for MQSERIES, we have to give a MQFORMAT. I want to have a format of MQSTR but it is not in the list of the possible formats. MQFORMAT could be a free field so we could put the format we want.
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Delivered

COBOL facet - define an extension point at end of generation process in order to know the manual code on a tag

in some cases, we need to know the code manually set to a particular tag, in order to generate code in other locations.This would require an API at end of generation (after reconciliation) to be able to manipulate the manual code associated with a...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Delivered