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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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Support of the CICS V5.1 Trial Product and future ones

We are in the process of doing an IVP for the Trial CICS V5.1 Product and running into issues. I undertstand that the problem might be ours but when bringing up a new product as such , we never know what issues we might run into. When looking for ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

Support more than one programs with same name load from different library in one CICS region

In CICS, user can define programs with same name in different resource group. but after install, there is only one program load from one library. Customer wants CICS support programs with same name can load from different library and coexist in CICS
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Enhance CICS IA CIUIADUF IPCS verbexit dump formatter to format data space elements

Enhance the CICS IA CIUIADUF IPCS verbexit dump formatting module to format the data space table elements using CIUTABM . CIUIADUF formats a summary of the AUGW_TABLES but not the table elements themselves. Level 2 Software Enginneers need to form...
over 11 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 2 Delivered

We would like to find a way to collect statistics for LU6.2 connection (onlline way)

We would like to find a way to collect statistics for LU6.2connection (online way). In Performance Guide about CICS/TS V4.2.0 SC34-7177-02 pag. 553 seems that ISC informations for appc connection can be colleced only from SMF110.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Delivered

Support UTF-8 presentation in Debug Tool UI

The current Debug Tool UI in RDz cannot present the memory content in UTF-8, it can only choose EBCDIC / ASCII.
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Delivered

Support UTF8 presentation in Fault Analyzer

The current Fault Analyzer UI cannot view UTF-8 characters in the dump, it can only view EBCDIC/ ASCII. even we change the codepage to UTF-8, it won't be able to show NLS characters.
over 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Delivered

"?" should be used as a single wildcard character in Remote Z/OS search

The Remote z/OS Search panel in an older version of RDz (RD/z 7.6.2.4) supports using characters "?" and "*" as part of the member name search. The version that we are using (8.5.1) doesn't allow "?" as part of the member name. In ISPF, we can use...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Delivered

Chargement des entit?s ipact?es par une modification du mod?le

Suite ? une analyse d'impact, nous souhaitons charger ces art?facts facilement. Deux limites nous emp?chent de le faire simplement via la fonction " load required art?fact" : Le nombre d'art?facts pouvant faire l'objet d'un chargement group? est l...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Fonction de synchronisation source COBOL/mod?le RPP au niveau du workspace local

Dans la vue "Pending Changes", tous les changements des modeles RPP sur un stream remont?s sur RTC sont affich?s au developpeur quel que soit le contenu de son workspace. Dans le cadre RPP, cela signifie un volume important ( pour info environ 200...
over 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Currently CICSVR supports only 1 DSCB Format - we need extended volume format of DSCB8 DCSB9form

the reason for this CICSVR request - We saw this event in generic tracker: (b) EVENTDESC: 'SMS-E:1 DADSM OBTAIN' Is flagged as an "error" according to the DFSMSdfp Advanced Services pub: "OBTAIN (SVC 27) was issued with the search or seek option t...
over 11 years ago in CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered