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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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Workstation Profile Option to disable printing

We need to disallow printing via the Print Screen or Print Graphics. I know that the PCSCMENU.EXE utility allows us to remove the menu entries. However what we need is a single option in the Workstation profile which disables the print function, e...
over 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

consistent naming in management apis

we are in the process of building a web-based graphical user interface to consume the z/OS Connect Management REST-interface API's. Consistency in naming would make it easier to parse responses from the Mangament REST-interface. Some aspects of th...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CPU time logged if trx is purged while on L8 TCB

To day the cputime is not logged to CMF if a transaction is purged while on L8 TCB.According to IBM this is working as designed.Many applications are now running Threadsafe , so the risk of loosing cputime is great
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer Print Button/Function

A PRINT function, in CICS Explorer would be very handy. to send a 'printer friendly' view to a printer.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - New compilation directive ">>RULES(ON|OFF)"

In addition to RFE 120105 (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=120105), I suggest implementing a ">>RULES(ON|OFF)" compilation directive to enable / disable controls related to the "RULES ()" compilation ...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Enable support for multi-thread download from cloud

Currently CTC supports the THREADS parameter to enable multi-thread upload to improve overall throughput. This same value should also be used to enable multi-thread download of objects as well.
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CTC inventory to cloud audit

CTC should support an audit function which can be used to identify and correct discrepancies that may result between the host based CTC inventory and the actual objects currently resident in a target cloud repository.
over 6 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

trap AKCC with EXEC CICS RECEIVE

Trap an abend AKCC during an EXEC CICS RECEIVE
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

HATS is dumping the contents of the screen to a log

Currently when HATS encounters a macro exception, the contents of the screen being used are dumped into a log file.As this can contain sensitive information, we need to be able to stop HATS from doing this in a Production environment.
over 6 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 7 Planned for future release

Improve code generation for simple functions

Improve code generation for simple functions in METAL C: int func(const void* a, const void* b) { return memcmp(a,b,8); } in ILP32 mode the following code is generatedFUNC DS 0F STM 14,15,12(13) LR 15,13 L 13,8(,13) ST 15,4(,13) @@BGN@2 DS 0H USIN...
over 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 5 Not under consideration

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