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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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Tool to auto correct COBOL code with EXEC SQL stmts that require period

Though there has been a requirement that EXEC SQL INCLUDE statements are to be terminated with a period, IBM never enforced this rule when the DB2 Preprocessor was released. As a result, many Users did not "properly" code their COBOL DB2 programs....
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

IBM COBOL Support on TXSeries on x86 Linux

Currently in Linux x86 platform, TXSeries only support COBOL-IT and MF COBOL. And ShanDong Cooperate League customer is requesting IBM COBOL support on TXSeries Linux x86.
over 6 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

IMS Connect Multiple TCP/IP Stack Support

IMS Connect is not able to connect to multiple TCP/IP stacks and because of this we are actually using the IMS Explorer only on our system programmers test environment – otherwise we would have to setup additional IMS Connects on our customers LPA...
over 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / IMS Connect APIs for Java and C 3 Not under consideration

Compare datasets that are true TSO data files (not source files)

Currently developers using RDz 8.0.3 can download source files that have any EBCDIC character and compare the source files. But they cannot compare EBCDIC data sets that contain packed and binary values. Even though the Compare option is enabled w...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add MQ support to 64-bits PL/1 applications

We are migrating existing PL/1 applications to 64-bits. These applications are accessing MQ via the MQ API and RRS coordination. There is currently no support for MQ 64-bits PL/1 callers, only for C 64-bits caller.Theoretically, the dll providing ...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Limit the size of AIDs chain for Transid

This is a evolution of RFE 98067, in which the customer asked to be able to set a limitation for new starts of transactions when the number of AIDs in a CICS region reached to this limit. Today, however, the customer has "evolved" this issue furth...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

z/TPF Online Image Compare

An online compare will compare the image that the system is actively running on to a staged image. It compares the actual object text and identifies the differences. Note: the online compare (by the fact that it is an online object compare), will ...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Improve function for compress of IMS type99 log using H/W component instead of MVS service

We plan to use IBM InfoSphere Data Replication for IMS for next disaster recovery system. It needs new IMS type99 log records for data replication at source system.The source system's CPU usage was increased 20 percents by adding type99 log. We wo...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 1 Not under consideration

ADDI not showing links between Hogan Generic Transactions and Assembler Programs

Transaction Call graphs not showing links between Hogan generic transactions and Assembler Programs.
about 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

IMS JDBC driver-equivalent SQL support for IMS Administration Tool ISPUFI feature

Currently the IMS Administration Tool ISPUFI feature is based on COBOL and the IMS native SQL support of IMS. This leads into many restrictions of the SQL functionality compared to what the IMS JDBC driver provides. Please enhance the IMS Administ...
over 6 years ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

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