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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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Export / Import of test entries/datas between Test Case Editor of zUnit and Excel

In the Test Case Editor of zUnit, please provide the function which can export empty or empty test entries to Excel, add test entries and edit values in Excel, import them into zUnit, and run test.By providing this function, you will be able to si...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Apply EELEXIT so it assembles with RC=0 for IATUX19

Regarding "Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed - Agent for z/OS V9.4." Regarding EELEXIT. Assembling JES3 exit IATUX19 results in HLASM RC=4 and fails the SMPE APPLY into our zOS/JES CSI which expects HLASM RC=0. Looking at the assembler listing...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Support for enumerations in EGL

There's a need to be able to add enumerations in the EGL language so proper parameters can be defined in functions which forces the developer to pass predefined values.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Printing capabilities in EGL

As a programming language, It needs to have printing capabilities to send files directly to the printer (Server side & Client side(RUI)) with some printing features, e.g: -Silent mode, in case of printing server side-prompt & don't prompt ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Treat CPUTIME and COUNT in PROCLIM independent of each other in determining U240 Tran abend

Currently, a transaction can have a max time equal to the product of CPU-time-per-transaction and count as specified in the PROCLIM parm. This means that if the count needs to be adjusted for tuning purposes, it will have an impact to how long a l...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Process SMF Type 23

I need to collect some metrics about SMF Logstreams activity. Could you please provide a component which process those records ?
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Not under consideration

IE4D : Changing transaction metadata removes service setup

Refer related ID : 90583 Changing the transaction metadata for a service can also remove much of the setup that has been done to a Service (default values, included/excluded fields), even if the names of the fields have not changed. Extract from e...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 3 Not under consideration

Implement HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Client for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Planned for future release

Implement HTTP 2.0 Server for zTPF

Implement a HTTP 2.0 Server for zTPF which will support compression, binary protocol and multiplexing over a single TCP connection.
over 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

Enterprise COBOL - Display the source code line in error in a *CONTROL NOSOURCE block

The source code can be hidden or displayed in the listing using the *CONTROL NOSOURCE / *CONTROL SOURCE directives. We use this mechanism at the level of our COBOL framework made up of COPYBOOKs, to hide the documentation (cf. ID=145887), and hide...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration