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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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Specify (remote) Transid on Function Shipped Requests other than DPL

It is currently possible to specify the transaction-id under which a DPL request will be invoked in the remote region using the "Transid" remote attribute on the program definition. This should be expanded to all function shippable remote requests...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 8 Not under consideration

Improved Access Controls around IMS data

As we look at the idea of accessing IMS data via SQL through ODBM, we see some rather glaring Security issues that could expose us to, that would be addressed using a similar concept to what DB2 is doing with Roles & Trusted Context and AUTH t...
over 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

CICS Bundles have limited obvious scope for documentation

When creating CICS Bundle in CICS Explorer there initially appears to be very limited scope to include any description or documentation within the bundle itself. A CICS Application Bundle has a description field of up to 255 characters which is no...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

COMMAREA should be checked at compile time, avoiding the program to carry on with faulty COMMAREA that is greather than 32kb.

This incident concerning COBOL - CICS and use of COMMAREA. There is a limit of 32 kb when transferring data using COMMAREA. If the user is unaware, tries to pass more than 32kb, Cobol compiler will not give an error for that. Developer should be a...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Enhancement Hourglass

We use HOURGLASS to update the date. HOURGLASS allow us only a specific date. We would like to have the ability to obtain a different date, Relative Date Plus ou Minus a number of days (for example, Day +7).We would like to do this thru AGGCX tran...
over 7 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Add dataset type with the BKUPINFO report.

Add dataset type beside the dataset within the BKUPINFO report. EX:: SEARCH CRITERIA: DATASET => ** DATE FROM => *-1 DATE TO => * TYPE => ACDFGHIMNORSTUVWZ 1PAGE 1 CBTI - DATASET LIST DATASET NAME EVENT DATE TIME TYPE ------...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Backup and Recovery for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

In CICS: Allow products, like CICS VT, to be driven at end of task processing and before the syncpoint.

CICS VT intercepts CICS File Control requests in the File Contol GLUEs and converts them to DB2 requests. These are leaving the DB2 cursors OPEN.When the task reaches end of task syncpoint, Recovery Manager calls DB2 to PREPARE and COMMIT before t...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Request for new IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing

With our increased usage of IMS ODBM, we have the need for an additional IMS ODBM Query Timeout to stop long-running ODBM Queries from further processing. We would like to be able to specify the Query timeout in both Wall clock time and CPU time.
over 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

Require to expose the CARMA Endevor API

We want the API allow self developed Eclipse plugin to call the existing CARMA Endevor interface.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Prevent loading DFDL files into wrong folder

I opened case TS008515710 for an issue we had where a programmer loaded a DFDL file for a business event into the wrong folder. APAR PJ46741 was opened to address this issue by ignoring files in the loader that were going to the wrong folder. Our ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

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