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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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Identify concatenation number in SRCHFOR of sequential DSNs

When a SuperC SRCHFOR operation is performed on a concatenation of PDSes, the listing will identify a concatenation number for the data set containing the member where the string was found. But when the concatenation is of sequential data sets, th...
almost 10 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

NTH File usage in the TOM

One of the nice things in the Omegamon Classic monitor for DB2 is the information when the Near Term History files wrap. This indicates the frequency of their use and provides a basis to increase their size or the number of them. This is something...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 5 Future consideration

IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: scherwajSubmitters Company: Finanz Informatik PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: IFI0410-1326 Loss of transactions in IMS after a DB2 abend until reconnect to DB2Homework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: Informatio...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

DEBUG Request to Support Access Register Mode

Debug needs to support Access Register mode. Debug abends if the user attempts to stop a program that is in Access Register mode.
over 6 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Smart Purge for DBCTL Tasks

We would like the CICS Purge Transaction Function to recognize that a task is in DBCTL processing and to then communicate with DBCTL to first purge the task from IMS, then continue with the purge in CICS.
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Ordre étiquettes sous-fonctions sur prévisualisation MSP

Partant d'un nouveau programme de nature T pour des tests, j'ai créé une fonction 70 en 05BL avec des sous-fonctions 70BA 10BL, 70BE 15IT et 70BI 15EL. Puis, j'ai appelé une macro, valorisé les paramètres en particulier l'emplacement en 70CA 10BL....
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Make 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...' more flexible to fit customer needs

Hi, I have some issues with function 'Refactor => Extract Paragraph ...'. I collected these after talking with our developers, so this are issues real developers have. We took those issues using latest IDz 15.0.2 on Linux. As reference have a l...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Refactoring 2 Future consideration

FORMATTIME "Day before".

Customer would like to obtain the information of the "day before" in the command EXEC CICS FORMATTIME.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Numbers Cut and Paste from HOD into excel cannot be tabulated

HOD takes the negative number from HOD and pastes it as is into excel. The users have set up processes for copying and tabulating numbers pasted in excel based on Rumba behavior. Rumba changes the position of the - (negative sign) to prefix the nu...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Not under consideration

PROC USAGE WILL NOT CONSIDER A PROC THAT DOES NOT HAVE AT LEAST ONE DDNAME OVERRIDE

Customer utilizes a PROC that is invoked without needing to add a DDNAME override. Customer wants to see that this PROC is returned in the PROC USAGE facility in analyze client. The PROC name is missing. The same PROC does appear in the job flow d...