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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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Need a Facility for storing a Disaster Recovery Plan

There is not an area to create and store our Disaster Recovery Plan – we will have to pursue manual plan creation and ongoing maintenance to meet requirements.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 2 Delivered

Unable to exclude datasets already researched and found to not be needed

AB&R does not allows us to exclude datasets. So after we have researched a dataset and found that it is not needed for DR, we can exclude it from the “issues” listing, however AB&R does not have that ability. With AB&R we will need to ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 2 Delivered

RDz support Microsoft CryptoAPI (MSCAPI) in Host Emulator

RDz Host Emulator did not support Microsoft CryptoAPI (MSCAPI) in the security setup which we are using in PCOMM. This block our adoption as we cannot achieve Host Emulator security via the CWD certificate store.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Requesting historical dataset usage feature similar to that found in DR Manager

There is no history within AB&R – this is the historical data usage; the Vendor told us that they have this enhancement on the books but have not pursued it yet. Using Part A AWI0 region as an example. AB&R provides the following informati...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 2 Delivered

Un objet classe n'est pas autoris? dans les unions.

Au niveau de la documentation :(IBM XL C/C++ for Linux, V12.1)anonunion | noanonunionControls the members that are allowed in anonymous unions. When thedefault, -qlanglvl=anonunion, is in effect, anonymous unions can havemembers of all types that ...
over 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

Unreachable Code should also highlight SQL statement

The "indentify unreachable code" cannot highlight SQL code. even whole section is unreachable, but the EXEC SQL codes are not highlighted and this is a bit misleading.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

support timeout base on elapsed time of task

User wants to specify a timeout for tasks, when the elapsed time of that task is more than the value, cancel that task.<br /><br />User can accept the cancel fail or take effect after a whole. they want CICS detect the elapsed time and...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add option to reduce error from severe to warning when using -qcheck compiler option

We'd like a way to be able to reduce a particular error from Severe to a Warning so that compiles will proceed. SAS is interested in using the XL C/C++ compiler option -qcheck=bounds; however, SAS has a lot of legitimate legacy code that trips ove...
over 11 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 5 Delivered

existing DB2Tran gets deleted when changing an other DB2Entry

Add extra information in CICS InfoCenter, related to the way of working with DB2Entries and DB2Tranids. A single DB2Entry can be pointed to by many DB2Tran definitions. A DB2Entry can wildcard Transids or even explicitly define a Transid. In the c...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

JRIO OPDATA Tracking for DFHLS2WS

IBM Java Record (JRIO) is deprecated as of SDK 6.0.1. No new function will be added to any release of IBM Java Record I/O (JRIO). WSDL creation using pgm=DFHLS2WS creates the tracking instances and Health Checker then flags these alerts.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

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