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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 FM/DB2 to work without access to AUTH tables

I get this question from all customers when installing FM/DB2. Customers are having an issue with FM/DB2. Security people don't allow me to list objects because function uses AUTH type tables, they say only auditors may access that. Is there a way...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Move Debug Tool storage for program listings

Debug Tool uses twice the storage needed to run during initialization. Currently during initialization storage is obtained in LE Heap and then copied to DT storage. We have many very large programs that have caused SOS conditions during DT initial...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Customer wants both high availability and balance when CICS connects to DB2 group

System: CICS connects to DB2Actor: User needing support for both HA and WLM when cics connects to DB2 group. Description: We want to specify both DB2 member name and group name in CICS DB2CONN, when the first time connect, CICS will try to connect...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Enhancements of CPSM Samples & missing CPSM API DATATYPE meaning

1. CPSM REXX Samples Using IBM supplied EYU#API1 as an example... XX = EYUAPI('QUERY OBJECT(PROGRAM) THREAD(W_THREAD)' 'RESULT(W_RESULT) DATALENGTH(W_INTO_OBJECTLEN)' 'RESPONSE(W_RESPONSE) REASON(W_REASON)')If XX <> 0 Then Signal UNEXPECTEDI...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Integrate CPSM in the standard CICS without additional address spaces and libraries with a graphical and 3270 user interface

Integrate IBM's CPSM into the Standard - CICS without additional (CICS) address spaces and libraries with a graphical AND a 3270 user interface IBM's CPSM, a relict written by Bool & Babbage (?) in the 1990s, will be integrated contemporary in...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Batch DSC to issue non-zero return when 0 records copied when copying over the input file

Batch DSC to issue a non-zero return code when the input file contains records but none of these are copied to the output file when it is the same as the input file. This can happen with different record numbers, blksizes and filetypes (as per the...
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Batch DSC to issue non-zero return when 0 records copied when copying over the input file

Batch DSC to issue a non-zero return code when the input file contains records but none of these are copied to the output file when it is the same as the input file. This can happen with different record numbers, blksizes and filetypes (as per the...
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support row duplication in Datasource explorer

In Datasource table editor, we can insert a new row, but we cannot duplicate a row, which we can do so in DB2 File Manager on host.
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Display transaction id in wait ICE

Can transaction name be seen if the ICE represents an EXEC CICS DELAY or an EXEC CICS POST? Now, if the ICE represents an EXEC CICS START it will have the name of the transaction to start. There is no transaction to start so there is no transactio...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPA should provide a field that give cpu time in service units

When we change our CPCs we are not be able anymore to compare transaction CPU consumption.All the datas we have stored before the change become unusefull
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

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