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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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Common Extract Format for CSD, Bundles, and BAS

Provide a common extract format for CICS resource definitions, so that we can write internal audit and resource checks against the definitions, regardless of their source. The intent is to read all resources that have been staged so that we can pr...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Both "LPAR Name" and "Host LPAR Name" show the same data.

Problem Details.Product or Service: Tivoli OMEGAMON XE on z/OS 5.3.0Component ID: 5698A5900.Operating System: z/OS.Problem titleLPAR Clusters attributes "LPAR Name" and "Host LPAR Name" show samedata.Problem descriptionFrom the OMEGAMON XE on z/0S...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

The USERID should be always processed in upper case

Actually the USERID received from CTG requests, INBOUND Web services and the CESL/CESN transactions are kept in the regions as they are entered by the client application or in the terminal. We expect that the USERID value is always in upper case.
about 3 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Create AD Plugin for MacOS Eclipse

Many of our Engineers and other users of AD have Macs and cannot use AD as the Eclipse plugin is not certified for MacOS Eclipse. Create an AD Plugin for Eclipse on MacOS so the tool is not limited to only Windows users of Eclipse.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Creation of a data set growth metric suitable for identifying abnormal data set level growth.

Customer's are often challenged with identifying culprit data sets and applications when storage group growth exceeds expectations. Often subject storage groups can be several TB's large and identifying excessive growth at the dataset level cannot...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON AI for Storage / Client 0 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Continuation line for conditional compilation directives

A line of COBOL source code, limited to columns 8 to 72, to express a complex compilation condition, (>>if, >>when), with variables names that can be relatively long, is not sufficient.It is necessary to use artifices by using intermed...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL V6+ - IGYLI0245-E error falsely triggered ("varname" was not defined as a compilation variable)

A conditional compilation variable is used under control of a >>if varname is defined directive.The compiler wrongly triggers an error IGYLI0245-E on the fact that the variable is not defined. The triggered message is an error...The return c...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Is a defect

Support des colonnes DB2 XML dans la génération des DDL et des accès SQL

Bonjour, Merci d'ajouter le support des colonnes XML pour le SGBD DB2 (z/OS).Ceci concerne :- la g?n?ration de DDL ? partir de Bloc Base de Donn?es- la g?n?ration de hosts-variables compatibles avec les colonnes XML des structures en organisation ...
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 6 Not under consideration

Support for Corba/IIOP in CICS TS 5.2 and further

Corba/IIOP support is discontinued after CICS TS 4.2 It would be of great benefit to some of our customers if support for CORBA/IIOP be made available in CICS TS 5.2 and CICS TS 5.3, either directly in CICS or as a feature under the Liberty JVM Se...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Restart a failed shared SSL daemon process automatically?

Using the description from the CASE.jvfarmer (IBM)Jan 18, 2022, 08:42We have been working on diagnostic improvements to shared SSL, and have gotten some corruption detection in place, but we don't believe adding this code formally is the correct a...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

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