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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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RFE PARMGEN – Variable to support more than 8 positions

Is very important for installation flexibility have parameters supporting variables with more than 8 characters.
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RFE: PARMGEN – Select product to regenerate parameterization

Include on Option 3 (Create Runtime Members) an intermediate panel that allows us to select the products that we want to regenerate the parameterization. The possibility to select a product do regenerate parameter reduced a lot the time to apply m...
over 8 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

VALIDDATE shall support more date/time/timestamp patterns

validdate(to_be_tested, <pattern>) shall support a broader range of date/time patterns. in an ideal world any combination of yyyy, mm, dd, hh, mi, ss, 9999 with any kind of separators (,-;:_.+/\?`^?) are supported. as a minimum the commonly ...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Transaction detail information to be written to SMF

CICS Transaction Gateway for z/OS produces SMF records which include system level statistics that can be imported into tools such as CICS PA for analysis. More detailed analysis of workloads, trends and problems require request or transaction leve...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

file manager and compressed smf records

if editing or browsing smf file records add the ability to recognize if the records contain smf compressed data and uncompress it before presentation
over 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Disable CICS in PARMLIB member IFAPRDXX

We have a very big environment with several systems in each of ourr SYSPLEX. We have a business need to separate the kind of workload that we run on each LPAR and we decided to start their CICS environment only in one LPAR. To avoid that, by mista...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

RDz's COBOL Editor do not handle substrings correctly

We have the following scenario 01 TEXT PIC X(20). 01 CHAR PIC X(1). MOVE TEXT(1) TO CHAR. The MOVE statement is incorrect it SHOULD have beeen MOVE TEXT(1:1) TO CHAR The error was detected during the compileprocess, but should have been recognized...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Allow EXTRACT CERTIFICATE to return multiple values for the OU field for MASSL

We use "APP CERTS" in our environment, and part of our security policy is to validate the OU fields in the APP CERT. Our standard calls for three different OU fields, and the EXTRACT CERTIFICATE only returns one field.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Sys Prog

There are no exclusion parms in LMA - so I have been asked to open a this RFE and request selection options.
about 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

PD Tools Code Coverage Plug - Name in the Code Coverage Report is not persistent

When you double click on the Code Coverage Report Generation line in the Debug Tool Code Coverage pane, you are presented a Code Coverage Report pane where you enter the name of the code coverage output data set. This name is not persistent. So, w...
over 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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