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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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CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API

CTG Trace setting should be read from .Net Core Configuration.API, not specific appsettings.json. We are using Custom Configuration Provided to read configurations from DB.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CECI equivalent fo CPSM APIs

We have a few CICS programs that make use of CPSM API calls. It would be beneficial to have a CECI-like transaction for use with CPSM API calls. (Refer to SR 02426,082,000)
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

USEREXIT TYPE(IMSMON)

An IMSMON type user exit is not notified of termination when it is deleted by IMS as the result of a REFRESH USEREXIT command. This occurs if it was removed from a list of exits defined in the same USEREXIT definition. For example if XXX was remov...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 3 Not under consideration

WEB SEND should allow options to be provided with values indicating the option is to be ignored

EXEC CICS WEB SEND should be enhanced allow all options to be provided as long as all of the options are set to values such that they do not conflict with one another. This would allow a single "WEB SEND" command to be used where some of the optio...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Provide batch program to read temporary storage queues

Provide CICS batch utility to browse temporary storage queues.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

SLDSREAD to retry automatically on secondary dataset

Testing the new feature SLDSREAD on IMS v11 and we have found a situation that we think is not correct. IMS always tries to mount the primary SLDS dataset even though it has an i/o error, it has been deleted or it has been marked in error. Several...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

CICS CSD - Warning program not defined

No documentation on the root cause of a message, not description of the impact of message and no description on how to fix the problem. [21-02-2019 12:03] Can't find referred program AAXXPGM for transaction XXAA, in group AAXXGRP.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Is a defect

Enable direct to cloud capability in CTC

Current CTC must either clone an existing disk or tape activity, post process prior disk or tape activity or emulate tape and subsequently read the "tape" dataset from disk in order to send to the cloud. CTC should enable the capability to directl...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0

Enable one-way location for text xfer to open platforms

Object storage is an infrastructure which supports both open and mainframe environments. While certain datatypes are not compatible it is possible to share basic text files between the two environments. CTC should support the capability for writin...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Mechanism to sysplex Load Balance transaction requests needed to process CICS/MQ messages

Mechanism for sysplex Load Balancing of the number of transaction requests needed to process CICS/MQ messages and the number of applications processing information relating to the transaction requests. A message arriving on the message queue might...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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