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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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DFS3CATQ API with CONTCAT option

This is a curious case with the DFS3CATQ API that exists today when making separate calls to PENDING versus CURRENT IMS directories. I believe this error would not occur if we have the CONCAT option listed below. In this case we have HIDAM DBD tha...
over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 2 Future consideration

HLASM ADCON Type for Weak External Reference

HLASM would provide a new ADCON type (e.g. W or WV) that would generate an address constant containing a weak external reference to a symbol in another module to be linked with the module containing the W ADCON reference. This new ADCON type would...
over 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Not under consideration

Need additional error message for failed Btachrep Delete

Running a Batchrep job that specified a series of remove commands gave no messages at all for each command until an invalid use of a generic value with the next command then reporting it had failed because of a previous error. REMOVE PROGDEF NAME(...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

CTG must provide support for Muli-Factor Authentication (MFA)

In order to achieve wide-spread adoption of MFA in our mainframe environment, CTG must support MFA. The vast majority of our end-user community uses CTG to perform their day-to-day work. Without CTG support for MFA, MFA adoption will only be avail...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Prevent a task from coming up in another system until it is completely down in another system.

This request is to prevent one of the applications that we are running from unecessary being flagged as broken by allowing SERIAL Move Mode specification in a SERVER group. SA automatically starts a member of a SERVER group in another system when ...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

UNREFERENCED/UNUSED Listing Sections

It would be helpful for code cleanup if there were sections in the listing that detailed unreferenced variables and unused subroutines, similar to the way the PL/I compiler shows them in the listing.
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Use XWBAUTH for all outbound requests

For all outbound web and web services requests, where basic authentication is required, exit XWBAUTH should be driven. Currently it is done only when the E.C. INVOKE specifies a URIMAP, but not when using a specified URI
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

N/A should not be considered greater than 0 when sorting on 'Elapsed Tran Time' attribute.

In panel KIPDEPS (IMS Dependent Regions) if we sort on the column 'Elapsed tran time' we see that dependent regions having an elapsed tran time equal to N/A are shown before regions having an elapsed time greater than 0.We think it would be more a...
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Future consideration

Dead Code: Unused Routines Report

Would like to see links from the report back to the unexecuted lines indicated in the report.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

NEXT SENTENCE warnings

Add optional warnings when NEXT SENTENCE is used and might behave in an unexpected manner
about 10 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

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