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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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Change Trace Locking in DFHTRPT from LIFO to FIFO

Trace the trace locking in DFHTRPT to be First In First Out rather than the current Last In First Out.
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Allow full specification of TCPIPService parm in CPSM WUI and CMCI

We have more than one TCP/IP stack running on an LPAR.Unfortunately the TCPIPServices EYUWUI and EYUCMCIT which were automatically be created by CICS are defined with Host(ANY).Thus we cannot force a specific IP stack to be used.We should be able ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

A New Feature that use the jmx interface to monitor.

System: IBM Txseries for AIX and LinuxActor: Customer need the restful interface to monitor the txseries runtime state. Now the IBM Txseries have the monitor tools which is deployed on the liberty. It is good for the new users. But if customer hav...
over 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 2 Not under consideration

EXCI Improved Error Messages

For the CTG6876E EXCI errors print out additional information which is related to the error. For example on a 404 error log the User Token, for the 408 error print the UOW ID, for the 418 error print the Password Token. There are other EXCI error ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Is a defect

Inline/internal %INCLUDE

When the same structure is used multiple times in a program, it's easy to declare it once in full and reuse it in other structures declared with LIKE. When used this way, any change to the "base" structure" will automagically be applied to all its...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

HOD copy & paste support for Thai language

HOD client V11.0.14, Copy and paste function can not recognize Thai vowel and tone mark which are rendered in above or below normal Thai characters. Customer would like copy & paste to function as "what you are seeing is what you are get", jus...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 6 Not under consideration

Support CICS application-provided SOAP faults for inbound web services

TXseries does not support Channels with inbound web services. Thus web service programs must be called with a COMMAREA.
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Support contract-first inbound web service generation

Currently, TXseries supports the generation of a WSDL and WSBIND file from a program structure file for inbound SOAP web services. This contract-last generation is provided by the DFHLS2WS program available in the z/OS Transaction Server and TXser...
over 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need ability to skip adding data to offline IP trace capture

Today we can specify the IP trace capture size for a specific applname in the Network Services Database. This will override the system level trace size. However the minimum size that can be specified is 8 bytes. This 8 bytes is of data, on top of ...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

CBAC enhancement to avoid huge getmain.

CICS BAC development did confirm that the first mirror task for the CBAC File Maintenance Utility will getmain 40M for the MAXDOWNLOADPAGES(9999). If the command response is greater than 32K, the reply data is written to a CICS TSQUEUE and the bat...
over 8 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 0 Not under consideration