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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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Request for supporting of PowerVM Live Partition Mobility

Mizuho Bank has built the private cloud system by using Power system. The private cloud environment requests to use PowerVM Live Partition Mobility. Some systems cannot integrate to the private cloud environment because of the issue of support of ...
over 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 1 Delivered

Raise limit of OTMA descriptors

Raise the limitation of ~255 OTMA descriptors to far higher
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Allow overrides of WSDL

Allow for overriding the destination in the WSDL and overriding the program being used as the converter.
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Delivered

Subscriptrange should be raised when arrays have different bounds

When assigning from a whole array to another whole array the LRM for PL/I states that both arrays should have same bounds. This is not enforced for arrays of type controlled. A subscriptrange condition should be raised when a differently bounded a...
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Annotation for paddings within char varying array

With use of RULES(NOPADDING) the compiler issues a message saying the structure has padding, but when you look in the aggregate listing, you see no indications of any padding.The paddings are within an char varying array with odd length.In this ca...
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

Keeping Design and Cobol Source in Sync

When making changes to both the Design and Cobol source, CHECK IN and DELIVER could get cumbersome. The .cblpdp and .cbl could be combined into the same Change Set. However, the .pacprogram is separate. The developer may not Deliver all Change Set...
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Message lost after TPIPE WAIT-H and ERE

TPIPE goes into a WAIT-H. /DIS TMEM supermember TPIPE ALL after an IMS ERE shows that the qcnt has gone down by one. The ERE resulted in a lost message, which should not be lost.
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Delivered

System z Data Editor: Show found string using Search-Function

If you do a search request you can use the search results to open a file and go to the found string. This should also be done when the file is opened by System z Data Editor as it does when opening the file by the LPEX editor.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

color setting of file manager plugin

Color settingModify background color
over 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Enhance CICS Events to allow computational data as a field type

CICS Events can be further enhanced to provider greater context and guidance around certain conditions. A field type other than field data passed from a system message, static text, or business data may be useful. Such data may be a concatenated s...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Delivered

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