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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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Include IP address on MQSC0361E errors

Include IP address on MQSC0361E errors
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Please make the interim fix installation and enterprise configuration update a single step for the user.

See attachment.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Delivered

Make numpad enter key enabled in Data Editor

Numpad enter key is disabled in Data editor in order to browse records: only standard enter key works
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Delivered

Do not allow check-in and deliver for BMS entities modified outside of RPP Design editor

Do not allow check-in and deliver for BMS entities modified outside of RPP Design editor BMS entities (generated by RPP) are editable when opened in RDz default BMS editor.A user can therefore modify generated BMS entities using this BMS editor wi...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Add Content-Length header if Connection:Keep alive header is sent

PJ42624 provides management of Connection: Keep alive headers, however it does not ensure content length is returned if a Connection: Keep alive header is added. If the application has not specifically added the content length this results in the ...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Better error reporting when calling fetchable routines compiled with rent

The following restriction is documented in The Enterprise PL/I for z/OS Compiler and Run-Time Migration Guide Version 4 Release 4 on page 152: code compiled with NORENT code cannot fetch a module containing any code compiled with RENT The run time...
almost 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

All API Threshold policy

CICS TS V5 already provides a number of threshold policies for types of EXEC CICS commands, eg FC, TS, TD issued by a task. It would be useful to have a policy to control the overall number of EXEC CICS commands, ie any EXEC CICS command
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

APA performance report DBCS INCORROUT for SQL STMT field in output panel of SQL statement attribute(F06)

APA performance report DBCS INCORROUT for SQL STMT field in output panel of SQL statement attribute(F06)This happens also F02 DB2 SQL activity timeline, F04 SQL execution summary, F11 DB2 SQL CPU/Svc Time by Stmt ,too.
almost 10 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

ECBRM enhancement request. File Rate Monitor

IBM presented plans to enhance ECBRM and HP has a local mod that we would like included in the base product as an enhancement.In the File Rate monitor we have it set up to exit ecb's with settings of FILE TIME 40 mils and FILE RATE 256. We only wa...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

Continuous Data Collection cannot graph Channel Stats because they are non-numeric

Many of the statistics in CDC have the ability to be charted, or graphed. However, channel statistics cannot be graphed because they are considered non-numeric. However, being able to graph this will provide great value.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered