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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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Redevelop CICS Auxiliary Trace Utility to write to a Logstream and to trace tasks at a more granular level.

While running an auxiliary trace to capture data to assist Threadsafe analysis for a transaction that typically performs some 30000-40000 DB2 calls we saw very high levels of IO that appeared to elongate the response times of the transaction fifty...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Make Available RDz ASTNode API outside of code review rules

When writing custom COBOL code review rules, the java class generated uses ASTNode API.This API enables to parse the COBOL program and identify each COBOL construct.Make this ASTNode API available outside of custom COBOL code rules to be readily a...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz Code Review Summary %

Custom cobol code review rules, can it produce a % (percentage) of how many anti patterns were found in the cobol code and based on % (say >70%), return different MVS return codes
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz COBOl/JCL Editor: Ability to use REXX like Macros

We come from a TSO/ISPF setup, where we over the years have developed a set of inhouse important macros, which either corrects issues or make changes to the whole program for given issues. We know that we can develop our own plugins, but it would ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RDz Expanding Snippet functionality

Snippets in RDz offers you the ability to include code templates with or withour variable substitution.Many code snippets requires code inserted in other sections of COBOL or/and could benefit from inline programming logic to make the snippets mor...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 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.
over 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL change in the CDC Management Console for platforms

IBM IDR product should show the complete DDL statement changed made on the source system in the CDC Management Console for platforms Right now to debug and detect the exact DDL change we need to look at the source dmts log files on source system. ...
over 4 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

TPF CACHE STORAGE should use Ready list completion stacking longest IO first to shortest

With HPF (HIGH PERFORMING FICON) and the CPU LOOP interactions with CACHED SOLID STATE STORAGE --- Generally speaking APPs on activation will (likely) incur a cache miss which is slightly longer than a CACHE HIT. At any given time there can be a n...
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support non-unique column names within segment

Column names must be unique within the segment. However, for COBOL and PL/I, the field names within a data structure don't have to be unique.Only the fully qualified name - for example, data-name-1 in data-name-2 in data-name-2 - has to be unique....
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

IMS catalog does not support all the variants of zoned decimal that COBOL supports

COBOL supports these variants of zoned decimal:Unsigned, Sign trailing, Sign trailing separate, Sign leading and Sign leading separate.The IMS catalog only supports the Sign leading separate variant.
almost 9 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

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