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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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Allow %INCLUDE and %XINCLUDE to appear within preprocessor procedures

Allow %INCLUDE and %XINCLUDE to appear within preprocessor procedures and also resolve %INCLUDEs, %XINCLUDEs, and macro invocations within ANSWER strings. Example: ? SYSLIB member QSUB: %DCL QSUB ENTRY; %QSUB: PROC; ANSWER('/* QSUB */'); %END QSUB...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Automatic detection of current RRDS by RDDS Extraction utility. (old MR092111406 )

Customer would like to create a copy of the old IMSGEN macro based on the latest information contained in his IMS sistem and stored into DRD RDDS Data set; these will be used in case of problems to recover the subsystem.The IMS RDDS Extraction uti...
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 4 Not under consideration

Display list of programs in 31 or 64 bit COW areas

Currently there is no display to show a list of programs allocated in each C-O-W CRPA program area. This would be useful to identify which programs might be considered for migration to the normal C-O-W area.This information is available in the IPA...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Move TYPE=DATA programs from C-O-W to normal CRPA program area

Currently all TYPE=DATA programs are allocated by default in the C-O-W program area but the majority are never updated.Better to allocate these programs in the normal CRPA area which offers some protection against core corruption and does not attr...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Define multiple resource in BAS with same name but different properties for different applications

System: BAS resource managementActor: System Administrators Description: We are trying to migrate our resource definitions from shared-CSD to Data Repository. When using shared-CSD, we can store resource definitions into different group for differ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Request changes to IMS Global Online change

Currently we are using IMS Global Online Change in our 10 Way IMS Datasharing environment. We are currently looking at migrating to IMS V12. We use an Early Validation when migrating to a new version of IMS however it was identified that we can no...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

IMS Transactions and Large Attachments

More and more clinical artifacts, e.g. XRays, MRIs, and genetic info, etc. are being digitized. Today customers use a manual type of process to coordinate files for claims. It is desirable to have transactional integrity support for claim processi...
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Terminal Management 3 Not under consideration

RDz RSE Support for SMF Records Based on User ID

Currently the z/OS component for RDz called RSE does not identify individual RDz users. JPMC like many large customers do "Chargeback" to bill each customer based on system usage. Under RSE there is not way to do this. The customer has requested t...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

RDz live remote syntax check for assembler

RDz live remote syntax check for assembler (HLASM) RDz marks a macro call with "Instruction <macro_name> unrecognized" but Ctrl + click on thename of the macro, you'll get into the correct macro source!
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Long qualified structure fields cannot be monitored in the Debug Tool GUI using CICS explorer

Debug Tool GUI using CICS explorer, neither COBOL nor PLI have the possibility to list or monitor variables which have long names, additionally are part of structures and need to be qualified. See the following COBOL example: DISPLAY LONGDECL_IN_S...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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