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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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CTG for z/OS: file mode setting

It appears that all output files which are created by the CTG z/OS V9.0 and put into HFS(zFS) got the permission bits '666' (rw-rw-rw-). This can be checked for the ctg trace file or healthcenter output or logs from support pacs (e.g. CH0A or CH51).
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Delivered

Compatibility of CSMI with RSA Securid

On our environments, we have RACF interfaced with RSA Securid.RSA Securid provides us with a one-time-usage code to sign-in.When trying to connect with CICS Explorer (via CMCI) to our CICS on these LPAR, the same code is tried many times and our a...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

[Tous clients]Complement fichier NS avec entites en variante N

Bonjour, dans le cadre du suivi des entites dont seul le modele est migre, il faudrait ajouter dans le fichier NS, en sortie de MIAM, les programmes et ecrans qui sont en variante N (a ne pas generer). Il faut egalement les "toper" de fa?on ? les ...
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Update DAGX support to allow write to GDG

In v5.3 OMEGAMON XE For Storage provides a facility to Extract large reports from the DADS for processing with a workstation based application like Excel. The DAGX rule must identify the name of the zOS dataset to be allocated and can optionally b...
about 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 2 Delivered

CBAC to provide an option for RLS processing to avoid QUIESCE/UNQUIESCE processing

Provide an enhancement to the RLSOPTIONS parameter at the file or region level to bypass QUIESCE processing. For example add QUIESCE (which would be the default to mirror current behaviour) and NOQUIESCE to values for RLSOPTIONS for REGION or FILE...
about 10 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Delivered

CBAC ENABLE should set the DSN to UNQUIESCED state

When CBAC issues an ENABLE for a FILE it should UNQUIESCE the associated data set to avoid subsequent errors in the CICS region when implicit open is processed by CICS and access to the file by an application. From the CICS documentation fro CEMT ...
about 10 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 2 Delivered

Support MQ Compression on z/TPF

As more and more data is being shared with remote applications using MQ the need for data compression is increasing. We are requesting that the support for MQ compression as provided in MQ version 6 and 7 be added to the z/TPF MQ server installati...
about 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

RDz User Build APIs for custom contributions

Development team develops for both PL/I and C languages, where currently RDz User Build feature just supports PL/I language. RTC is the SCM solution put in place.It would be ideal to be able to contribute to this User Build custom extension so to ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Delivered

Provide statistics for CICS Policies

We need statistics info for CICS policies to clearly show some accounting data, eg: the times of thresholds achieved for a specific policy
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

CKTI security concern

all transactions submitted using the CICS / MQ trigger interface transaction CKTI run under the userid assigned to the CKTI transaction. This opens up access of transactions restricted to certain users to be executed by anyone using the CICS / MQ ...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered