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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

Provide a STEP OVER command that bypasses the code to be executed

We'd like to see the STEP OVER command bypass the code to be executed when issues. We currently accomplish the function we are looking for by using the JUMP TO Location command, but would like to see an more intuitive solution.
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 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

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

TS006587939- printing problem from the horizon client

when printing from VMware horizon client on pcom and the printer driver is universal driver , the printing from pcom not working
over 3 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 2 Planned for future release

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

When a tran abends in a region, CPSM should not route any tran of the same WLM tran group to this target region

Description: FI had observed that following an abend of a transaction in a CICS region, CPSM was still routing transactions with different ids to the CICS region. CPSM currently allows the 'Acceptable level of abend probability' and the 'Acceptabl...
over 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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