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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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Count number of calls of csects/subroutine/entry point

It's important to know how often a csect / subroutine / entry point is called so that you can differenciate if you spend a long time in a single csect / subroutine / entry point or visited several times.
about 11 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Upgrade supplied CL/SuperSession to v3.2

ADCD comes with "5601-B28 IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS 2.1". This RFE requests that "5698-CL3 IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS 3.1" be supplied instead.
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

File Manager - Editor, Template Editor - adding 'End' to indicate field's ending position in a file

In File Manager, for a field you can see starting position, length but not ending position. We can see ending position on mainframe and this is very important, because we need to know where the field begins and where it ends. We are working with c...
about 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Use of JSSE in trust between zCEE and IMS Connect

To establish the trust between z/OS Connect EE and IMS Connect in order to use identity assertion, TLS Mutual Authentication needs to be implemented between the 2 started tasks. On the z/OS Connect EE side, the use of a standard Liberty SSL repert...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

optimization of HSM routine managing exteded format dataset

Over CPU consumption of HSM from generalisation of Dataset extended format related to pmr 68153 661 706
over 5 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Planned for future release

Message metadata repository for IMS/TM

Actually there is neither a way to retrieve message metadata for typical IMS transactions in IMS TM Resource Adapter or IMS Enterprise Suite Connect API from an IMS controlled nor metadata source nor a way to retrieve such metadata from IMS Java a...
over 8 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Add support for file processing exits and/or user defined file systems to IBM COBOL for AIX

Please enhance IBM COBOL for AIX to support file processing exits and/or user defined file systems/formats (e.g. implemented by Callable File Handlers like the ones for Micro Focus' ExtFH interface).
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Mainframe style command-line argument linkage in an ASCII environment on AIX

Please provide a compiler option (or compiler patch) which enables COBOL main programs to receive command-line arguments as an ASCII character string that has a halfword prefix that contains the string length (z/OS mainframe COBOL like command-lin...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Code folding feature in RDz Cobol Editor

This is a request to incorporate the "code folding" feature in the Cobol editor in RDz. The LPEX editor has this feature by using X or XX to "hide" lines. Ideally this should work with Scoped statements. i.e. all the statements in an IF-ENDIF pair.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

When code is generated by PACBASE, we can see the number of the session in CONSTANTES-PAC

When code is generated by PACBASE, we can see the number of the session in CONSTANTES-PAC . This number is actually the only way to control some installation on production sites . Actually in SDP we find 9999T in every generated code When need to ...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

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