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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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Determining the ports in NSD "OTHER"

If a port is not in the Services file and there is IP traffic coming in and out on it, the counts are thrown into the "OTHER" bucket. Without going through IP trace there is no easy way to determine what ports are being thrown into the "OTHER" buc...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

The CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF works fine except that old pools are not getting released

Hi, When running a CRUISE RESTORE function on a non-DBDEF database, old pools are not getting released even though the RELEASE option is specified in the CRUISE RESTORE definition table. We prefer to have old pools released following a CRUISE Rest...
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Additional shutdown option for CPSM

In the event that CPSM cannot be shut down and requires an IPL it would be good to have the option to try to avoid that. So maybe some sort of Force Terminate utility option - accepting it could not be guaranteed to work in every scenario, just so...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

AD Build Decisions for PL/I source code

See PMR number 31216 999 624:We are using Application Discovery Build Client to build AD projects for applications (mainly) written in PL/I. I noticed the 'Decisions' feature in the Build Client is not supported for PL/I source code, only for COBO...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

HLASM toolkit needs to support line-mode programs which use PUTGET and TGET macros

The HLASM Toolkit needs to support line-mode programs such as those which use the PUTGET and TGET macros/services. When such programs are tested using the Toolkit, the macros return invalid command buffer data. The Toolkit tests the programs as 32...
about 11 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Problems of association between source lines and instruction addresses for the inlined paragraphs

We found several issues regarding the assignment of an address to a source line or paragraph name at the level of inlined PERFORM (options INLINE and OPTIMIZE(1|2) ). This creates problems for debugging: trace, dump analysis, performance analysis,...
over 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

HGSC option 1 to prefill CURRENT

HourGlass CICS settings control transaction, HGSC, option 1 - Display Settings, should pre-fill the "NAME OF SETTINGS TO DISPLAY" field with "CURRENT" so the user doesn't have to key it in each time. It is easy enough to overtype this value if the...
over 5 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Batch interface to load CICS settings

I would like a means of loading a saved CICS settings record (from the AGGSCDS) into a CICS region (i.e. what HGSC does) from a batch job step, and a way of activating an ad-hoc setting for a user within a CICS region (i.e. what HGUC does) from a ...
over 5 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Display only data items introduced by changes to a previous version in Test Case Editor of zUnit

As with baseline analysis of source code analysis on IDz, please provide the function in order to when compare with the source code of the previous version and identify the relevant line and data item of the change difference on the Test Case Edit...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Selection of saving / deleting input / output of each test entry automatically generated at the time of test execution of zUn

Please provide a function to select “Save” or “Delete” all datasets corresponding to the input / output of each automatically generated test entry at the time of test execution of zUnit.Currently, when multiple test entries are executed in batch, ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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