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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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CPSM upgrade CICS restart

Currently when we upgrade CPSM the CICS regions must be restarted to pick up the new Agent code. For availability reasons our requirement is that we can pick up the new code without having to recycle the CICS regions and cause an outage to our ser...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

RBD 無法指定 EGL 代碼以外的 MQ TCP/IP 連接屬性，希望能由EGL Build Descriptor CallLink Elements定義MQ相關屬性

在原有VAGen MQ應用程式需要Linkage Options:mqic32.lkg來運行 mqic32.lkg內容:calllink applname=elaq* linktype=dynamic dllname=csomqc32 bitmode=32 parmform=oslink 由VAGen轉EGL時RBD無法於EGL Build Descriptor Call Link做設定，訪問MQ Server會失敗不認得需於程式新增MQEnvironment物件指定相關MQ TCP/IP...
about 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

DDL and ACBGEN equivalent BLDPSB=YES

Using ACBGEN, if we want to make segment level change such as key length change, we use BUILD DBD=xxxxxxxx,BLDPSB=YES. This builds DBD and all the PSBs that use the DBD that we want to change. With DDL, I understand that we can use ALTER to make s...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Cross-processor Short Term Pool Return & Pool Directory Update

Allow short term pool directories to be updated by any processor in a z/TPF loosely-coupled complex to prevent lost short term pool and accelerated re-dispensing of pool causing improper re-use of pool currently in use by another LNIATA AAA.
about 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Move "Identify Unreachable Code" from Source Menu iItem to the Refractor menu item

Context Menu in COBOL Editor, Identify Unreachable Code in the Source Mune Item should go to the Refractor menu item where Remove Noise Words and identify Noise words is.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Using IBM Record Generator off Z/OS system with UTF-8 encoding support

Record Generator only supports EBCDIC encoding. I need it to support UTF-8 off z/OS platform.
about 6 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Request for IMS Replication and IMS to support logically /virtual related DBDs

IMS Replication Mainframe to Mainframe and IMS 1. Some logically related DBDs will not accept/allow Exits to be added on specific segments2. IMS Replication requires that each segment be augmented for replication to occur3. Need to find a permanen...
about 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

PCOMM and JAWS screen reader

It seems that PCOM has worked with JAWS in the past because the Windows functions used by JAWS provided the information by default. With Windows 10 that is no longer the case.
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

RPP 9.5.1 Date computing, date comparison micropatterns and lowercase

Lower case letter operands are not recognized for dates micropatterns (*!DAD, *!DCD, *!DCF etc….)
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Allow the creation of custom COBOL code quality rules for makros

COBOL code quality rules check only COBOL code. They do not check code generated by the preprocessor (rfe 77829). And it is not possible to create custom code quality rules to check the code that is replaced by the preprocessor. The custom makro c...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

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