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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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Support for GSAM feature

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over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE USERID

Can I have an EXEC CICS INQUIRE USERID function please?I simply want to get a list of users who are currently logged on to a CICS region.... I'm not interested in any attributes about the user (though I guess it might be nice if there was a way to...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

IDZ IMS property group PL/I settings generate JCL GO step debug options

For programs which include IMS (batch or transaction) while developers generating JCL for GO and DEBUG step and IMS checkbox within PL/I properties of IDZ Property Group is enabled, GO step with DEBUG parameters is not generated. Instead, customer...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Improve the usability/functionality of Control Center

Customer try to use control center to specify date/time at JOB level, however customer found some issues to use Control Center as follows; Issues to be improved; - same Jobname can be registered from the panel of 'Control properties: MVS Batch/STC...
over 9 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Pagination option in z/OS Connect

I have a CICS-COBOL code to return about 10000 records and it is getting time out and also it is not good way to send 10000 records in single shot. So would like to check the possibility of having pagination option to send the records in batches, ...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

BY NAME, Mis-Matched Level Numbers

A compiler warning should be issued when there is a level number mis-match on an assignment statement using BY NAME. Currently there is no compile-time notification that there is a problem. We only find out at runtime and only if data conditions e...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

IBMLINK - CSI Upload retired

Aug 2023 Customer inquiring if any additional consideration has been given to this RFE? CSI Upload function removed from IBMLINK.In customer opinion, SHOPZ - SMP/E Receive Order process inferior to CSI Upload.Client requested IBM team create RFE. ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Shopz 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...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Free from the constraint of the organization of Divisions

Hi, According to the standard, a COBOL program must be organized into 4 Divisions, and these Divisions must appear in a specific order.It is the same with the standard Sections of the Divisions, such as for example the Working-Storage Section or t...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Documentation for containerization of HATS projects

System: HATSActor: Official support for HATS containers HATS is a commonly used product that provides Host Access modernization. HATS projects are normally web applications that are deployed to an application server and accessed over a browser. De...
about 3 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 1 Planned for future release

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