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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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Read/Write to a HFS (or zFS) file from CICS in a API

To natively read and write to a USS member in a HFS or ZFS file in CICS using a EXEC CICS API. These files should be dynamically allocated when invoked. This would allow a programmer to read a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file (or any other type of fil...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

INGQRY/AOCQRY was not available for MTR resources

INGQRY/ING$QRY delivers attributes of an APL resource.No INGQRY/AOCQRY was available for MTR resources.
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

CICS Transaction Gateway (CTG) - Transaction flow control

Have ability to issue command to turn off flow of work thru the CICS Transaction Gateway, at the Transaction Level. /F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANDIABLE,DRP1/F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANENABLE,DRP1/F T8DTGEZ3,APPL=TRANSHOW This would turn off workflow to the backe...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

DB2 Comment -- colors

In the PDP Editor, I would like to be able to configure the color of DB2 comments. In the attached image, you'll see the DB2 comments in red boxes. They look like all of the other code in working storage. Can -- be recognized and highlighted?
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 5 Future 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

Annotate ADDI Graphs

Provide the ability to annotate a chart - especially a CA7 Scheduler graph - with lines and comments.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Mechanism for monitoring CICS storage fragmentation

It would be helpful to have a means of monitoring current storage fragmentation in the CICS DSA (and OSCORE area).
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

Buffer Pool Analyzer support simulation of VSAM hiperspace buffers.

We would like to simulate the changes applied on VSAM hiperspace buffers. When do this, we saw that MODEL report showed 0% for all hit ratio hiperspace . We don't see the simulation results for it. It will be very helpful to have this information.
almost 3 years ago in IMS Buffer Pool Analyzer for z/OS  2 Planned for future release

Enable user defined variables that can be set and tested for INCLUDE/EXCLUDE

AAM should provide the ability to combine a SET var_name statement be combined with CONTINUE=ENABLE. By defining, setting and interrogating a free form variable the flexibility of AAM selection processing can be greatly enhanced.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1

Support JSON for HTTP event adapter formats

We've received a request to create an event to pass data to GELF, a feature within the Graylog product to provide log structuring.http://docs.graylog.org/en/2.0/pages/gelf.html We would like to pass data to GELF using Common Base Event REST format...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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