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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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DASD report missing DD's

The DASD reports D02, D03 are missing 2 DD's from a given batch job.The missing DD's are SORTIN and SORTOUT. The DD's show up in D04. Problem occurs when a machine that has PAV.
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Improve z/TPFDF dump handling if a device is not operational

When a device is not operational (i.e. IDECSUD is set to CXSGNO/X'88' after a FIND macro) any of the following could occur: 1. Streaming OPR-DB0100 dumps might be issued as every access on that device will fail. In this situation these dumps are n...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Delivered

An exit that allows the PSBNAME and DATA STORE name in a ACCRDB command to be modified before CSLDCXXX processing

An exit that allows the PSBNAME and DATA STORE name in a ACCRDB command to be modified before CSLDCXXX processing
about 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 2 Delivered

RDz CARMA Quick Edit to support VB dataset

RDz CARMA Quick Edit to support element added from VB dataset. Please refer to the PMR for detail.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Delivered

Provide dump override for ECB heap control table

Customer reported a problem involving the corruption of the ECB heap control table (EHCT). This corruption resulted in a CTL-4 dump in ccstor on a free(). To help identify the source of the corruption, the customer wanted to examine the entire EHC...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

program debug /nodebug option

The customer is asking for the debugger to be more granular down to the macro level rather than at the program level if the program can be debugged by the debugger or not.. So in this example the customer has it's own application lock similar to I...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

File Manager version 12 FM/DB2 Copy Utility issue with Default values

Issue with the Copy Utility in FMDB2 when rows are copied from one table to another, the Copy Utility does not use the default value for fields defined as DATE. What the utility uses instead is the current date.
about 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support XDC in RDz JES output

It is a very commonly use features in SDSF panel.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

RFE for eclipse EFS OSGI bundle exporter

A CICS bundle is created with one OSGI bundle, the deployment to the ZFSdirectory regularly fails with an Eclipse message: java.net.socketTimeoutException: read timed out. My colleague uncompiled the IBM java class which is at the origin of thepro...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Delivered

Requesting that FLATCOPY not shutdown due to individual flat file error

We believe that, in order for the product to be operationally functional, the handling of individual errors within flat files must be changed to not result in the termination of the FLATCOPY process. Today, when FLATCOPY terminates due to a proble...
about 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Delivered