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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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Connect to remote Database

Provide system option to define connection to a remote database service, exposed only as an option for programs within the scope of an Application definition. Implemented using lightweight TCP/IP to a datasource, including IMS and DB2, capturing t...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Resolve Copybooks Within MVS Subproject Natively

Please refer to Service request number 56700,379,000. I understand the dilemma of what to do when the copybook is found in multiple subproject datasets (based on my use case) and my expectation is if that were to occur the user would get the simil...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Provide a KLSOPTS switch that will allow KLSSGRPS to be called at every logon attempt

The KLSSGRPS dialog is provided by CL/SS as a way to assign a group to a user when they first logon. Currently at logon, CL/SS checks to see if a user already has a group assigned and if so, CL/SS will not call the KLSSGRPS dialog. This prevents a...
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Option to generate ALTER DDL and save them in z/OS PDS member

Hi, I have imported a database from IMS Catalog to my local project in IMS Explorer. I have made some changes to it. To generate the ALTER DDL statements, I have to use "Submit changes to IMS" to generate ALTER DDL statements for the changes I hav...
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Edit segment attributes to change from fixed to variable length in IMS Explorer projects

I have imported a DEDB with fixed length segment in to my local project in IMS Explorer. I don't see a provision in "edit segment attributes" to make the fixed length segment to variable length.
over 2 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5+ - New compilation option CALLINTERFACE(mode,list-of-entry-points)

Since Enterprise Cobol V5, the >>CALLINTERFACE directive allows to modify the type of call declared by default by the DYNAM / NODYNAM compilation option.However, it is not always possible to insert >>CALLINTERFACE directives into the s...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

TPF Support for Transactional Execution Facility (TX)

Transactional Execution facility is a hardware feature first made available on the EC12 mainframe released in 2012 and has been supported on zOS 2.1 since 2013.The feature enables a more efficient and easier way to updating core resident data in a...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Include JCL EXPORT statement in AD

This request is regarding this AD issue: Error [1043] : Syntax Error: 'EXPORT' AD currently does not support JCL EXPORT statement and it would help us a lot if this statement can be added to JCL parsers.
over 2 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CL SuperSession Leading Blanks in Tiggers

If there are leading blanks before the Tiggers they will not work, you also have to retype the Tiggers after this error, even if the Tigger is in the home position. Please correct so that leading blanks don't effect Tiggers in any position. See ca...
about 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Allow the creation of custom COBOL code quality rules for makros

COBOL code quality rules check only COBOL code. They do not check code generated by the preprocessor (rfe 77829). And it is not possible to create custom code quality rules to check the code that is replaced by the preprocessor. The custom makro c...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

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