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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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STR - Chainage indirect sur Rubrique dans un paramètre de Macro-Structure

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almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Schedule information missing for Time triggered jobs in "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow"

In "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" chart, the time trigger schedule information for jobs in CA7. please provide this feature as time trigger schedule is a key capability widely used in batch schedule
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Save to Desktop from editor

It would be nice to have an entry at context menu to save the shown results (excluded, filtered, sorted, ...) to the desktop (DB2, Files, MQ, ...).
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Passticket generation for CICS Web Services with new USERID

We need a "REQUEST PASSTICKET" with foreign USERID (not user ID associated with the task) to the "INVOKE WEBSERVICE":EXEC CICS REQUEST PASSTICKET(PASSTICKET) ESMAPPNAME('LDPPROC') ESMUSERID('xxxxxxxx') ESMRESP(ESMRESP) RESP(RESP)RESP2(RESP2)
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

KAFKA Consumer

Citi z/TPF group has recently received a request to support KAFKA as a consumer. We are actively investigating the possibilities. One staff member was able to get a quick proof of concept working for this very quickly (One day). We are asking IBM ...
almost 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Trailing Quote

AAM requires the trailing quote be entered to complete the data set name on the control member panel. ISPF applications commonly making the trailing quote mark optional to improve ease of use. AAM will issue a confusing error message indicating th...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Variable re-use

The AAM ISPF dialogs should remember last used dataset names and entries to improve usability. Especially the control member dialogs.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance AAM ISPF dialogs - Short Message Support

When performing functions under the control member management menu it would be good if the product took advantage of the ISPF short message field to indicate actions like member saved, syntax check successful, unsuccessful, Etc.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Full IPIC implementation

Support DPL, function shipping, and transaction routing over TCP/IP between mainframe CICS and midrange TXSeries CICS.
almost 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Future consideration

CICS product 64-bit exploitation

Provide full 64bit support for TXSeries on all platforms.
almost 12 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Future consideration