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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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Provide a Global User Exit point for program termination.

Currently CICS provides the GLUE XPCFTCH which is given control before an application program is executed. Various IBM and ISV products use this to get control to build an environment for their code to use.However, there is no corresponding exit p...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

System event and/or policy for excessive wait time on ENQ

It would be very helpful to have the ability to set a system event, and a policy, that would detect situations where any arbitrary but selectable ENQ has either 1) been held for at least a specified period of time and/or 2) is being waited upon by...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

show the transactions which is using the program

When set program phasein, if the program is in use, CICS will load the new load module for all the new program call. But the tasks running still use the old load module till all the tasks which are using this program end. Current there is no way t...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

HTTP Message Compression in CICS Web Service Context

The request is to enable the sending of smaller messages by making CICS compatible with common compression algorithms (e.g. GZIP). The context is CICS Web Services over HTTP (with CICS as both requester and provider).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enhance IPLB0088T to show channel in error

Please enchance the following message to display pertinent information to the channel that is having issues - IPLB0088T CHANNEL CHECK THRESHOLD EXCEEDED. IPL TERMINATED+ This would be very useful in quickly identifying the problem and taking corre...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Generate "no-op" binary for EXIT statement when TEST option is active

When the EXIT statement is used in a PARAGRAPH, and that PARAGRAPH is not the end of scope of a PERFORM (THRU), the compiler does not generate any binary code. This complicates the debug by not allowing to set a breakpoint on the EXIT statement co...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Better control of redefinitions of entities in project hierarchy

In our organisation, we want to forbid the redefinition of an entity in the hierarchy of projects (entities of same name in the same tree of projects). This was a key feature of Pacbase to allow the administrator to forbid such redefinitions. To d...
over 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Indicator in the Analyze Client interface to tell the user if the project is ready for discovery

Currently users don't know if a project is completed as the last step of a MAKE or BUILD action nl. batch server callgraph update process, is hidden. It must be clear for users if they can rely on the analysis results or if the batch portion is st...
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Future consideration

PL1- Editor pre-processor results for includes with mouse-over return only first include

When we open a preprocessed PL/1 Program an Hoover with mouse over to an include.The whole following Includes are shown till a Statement follows.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

IBM ODA virutal table columns gets converted to upper case

trying to write the data to cassandra DB from izoda. Every thing look good except that columns names defined in virtual table in ODA coming as upper case. However cassandra DB column names are defined as lower case.. This is causing cassandra unab...
about 5 years ago in IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS (IzODA) / Mainframe Data Service 4 Not under consideration