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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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Resolve huge ECSA usage problem caused by DMHR

Our customer is now designing new account system and they caused ECSA shortage by plenty of DMHRs.This main contributing factor is BMP batch a lot of insert calls toward one area.When initial create they needs to insert 800 million root segments t...
about 7 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

ICAL Synchronous callout to MQ destination

Today we see an increasing demand from our IMS application developers to be able to reach out to applications outside the mainframe and wait for a reply. Many of these outside applications are housed in environments where MQ is a preferred way of ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance FILEDDWORD Built-in Function

Please add support for LRECL and BLKSIZE.
about 7 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Run OLR through job batch

It would be useful to have the possibility to run OLR directly by job batch. The job has to be active during the whole reorganization.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to generate PL/I-includes from BMS

Since we are also using PL/I we would need the possibility to generate PL/I-includes from a BMS-mask in parallel to the existing possibility to generate COBOL-copybooks
about 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Allow editing in monitor with WRAP ON and long variables

Currently when a field cannot be fully displayed due to its length you can edit itonly when wrap is set off.However it is very uncomfortable to edit very long fields in such a way.When setting wrap on, you may not edit the field.Our request is to ...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add support for the ++INCLUDE statement to the DBB Scanner

The IBM PL/I Compiler supports the ++INCLUDE construct using the PP(INCLUDE('ID(++INCLUDE)')) Compile parameter. The Scanner in DBB does not support the ++INCLUDE construct when scanning PL/I source code for include member dependencies. This lack ...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Is a defect

macro in host on demand

How manipulate a string variable in a macro. For exemple equivalence of java method "indexof" ?
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Not under consideration

ignore case in HTTP header processing

Per section 4.2 of the HTTP/1.1 spec, please support case insensitive HTTP header names.
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Consistent case for header names

Please change the capitalization of CICS' REST service header names to match WAS, zOS Connect and most other IBM products. Specific example is the header "content-type: application/json" that many other IBM products and the industry typically have...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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