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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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RDz: Default mgmt class when allocating new dataset

Submitted at the request of Venkat (Rational Architect) When creating a dataset on RDz, by default its management class is set to #IMMED, which means everything on that dataset will get deleted after the user logs off WITH NO BACKUP. Would be nice...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: Need multiple HCE emulators

Bank developers need to open an emulator to execute a transaction in the production CICS region, and then open a second emulator to execute the same transaction in the test region. They wish to view and compare the screens side-by-side. How do we ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: create a PDS filter for PDS members and then search based on the PDS filter

User wants to create a PDS member filter that displays only those members supported by the filter. He does not want to use the Locate cmd. Also, the user wants to search the PDS restricting the search only to the contents of the PDS filter. He doe...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz: Error handling from CARMA

RFE submitted at request of Venkat (Rational Architect) While compiling or linking a load module using the CARMA interface, RDz is not receiving the errors properly from TSO. The user is forced to look into JES for error messages. Rather we should...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

RDz: CARMA dataset movement

RFE submitted at the request of Venkat (Rational Architect) We would like to drag/drop source modules from CARMA to z/OS Projects. In summary, CARMA should behave similar to RSE.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Need a new transaction equivalent to CEMT INQUIRE

The auditors want reports on who has accessed critical transactions such as CEMT. Even though we have our security definitions set up so most users can only use INQUIRE with CEMT, SMF simply reports a user executed CEMT with no further breakdown. ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Filter settings

As in MVS it should be possible to set and use generic filter in selections panels in RDz mapping onto MVS datasets.I.e. specification and selection like UD69.P1210.JCL(GK*) should be accepted and performed.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

To make the broker backup portable to any OS.

We need to migrate WebSphere Message broker from Sun/Solaris servers to zLinux servers and having problem to restore brokerdue to the current mqsibackupbroker output can only be restored to the same OS level. We have many many bar files from diffe...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Migration Utility for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Increase accuracy of "Identify unreachable code"

From the above PMR, there are too many restriction and limitation of this feature currently and make it hardly to report an accurate result. The feature then become unreliable and not able to consume.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Need CPSM auto affinity for LOCK/TASK similar to LOCK/UOW that extends the affinity to the entire task.

Need a CPSM auto affinity for LOCKI/TASK similar to LOCK/UOW except that the DPL affinity is extended to the lifetime of the task and not just the UOW.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Not under consideration

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