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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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Add EVENT and FROM keywords to the EXEC CICS ABEND command (SHARE Requirement SSCICS09016)

Add EVENT and FROM keywords to the EXEC CICS ABEND function, this would allow the CICS application programmer to give a text reason for why they thought this ABEND was necessary, without requiring another CICS command such as: EXEC CICS SIGNAL EVE...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide an option in CICS TS (as a WEBSERVICE requester) to use a JMS message type of jms_text instead of existing jms_bytes

Currently CICS TS 4.1 when acting a webservice requester ( EXEC CICS INVOKE WEBSERVICE) and using MQ transport, CICS specifies a JMS message type of jms_bytes."We are testing a CICS outbound web service (implemented on a Unix platform). For this s...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

DFHSC2LS support of abstract datatypes

Problem occurs during DFHSC2LS, when the xsd-file contains abstract datatypes. In this case, an amount of copybooks is generated, one for each variant of the abstract datatype. The structures in the copybooks contain field- or groupnames, which co...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Expand CONFDATA capabilities

Suppress Information in several CICS call such as Write data on "TEMP Storage", passing data in COMMAREA for communication of tasks and programs and also in Channles and Containers. Need to suppress the information when we use CONFDATA intransacti...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Program notification when CICS statistics are reset

Our customer uses the XSTOUT exit to access the CICS statistics. He would like to have his program notified when the CICS statistics are reset. This could be done by calling a user exit, preferably XSTOUT, whenever the statistics are reset.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add FLENGTH, FITEM, and FNUMITEMs to EXEC CICS WRITEQ TS commands (SHARE Requirement SSCICS09017)

When and if you consider rewriting Temporary Storage to support 64-bit main storage, then add fullword versions of the EXEC CICS WRITEQ TS parameters that are now limited to halfwords: LENGTH, ITEM, and NUMITEMS. Based on past implementations thes...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Use of STCKSYNC for EIBDATE and EIBTIME

Request to use the STCKSYNC macro when initially setting EIBDATE/TIME.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

In RDz, have the LPEX editor default to the ISPF profile

The default profile for LPEX is the lpex profile. For RDz, however, the lpex profile is rarely used, and most users need the ISPF profile by default. This would help increase the adoption rate by the user community. If this cannot be done, then RD...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Health check for CKTI

"Health-check" requirement: Write "WTO(s)" if CKTI does more than "n" EXEC CICS STARTs for the same TRANID over some time period, where "n" is via a new "parameter"Currently it takes in-house monitors w/AO action to stop this mindless loop no matt...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Modify DFHWS2LS to allow per element-level override of the global inlineMaxOccurs limit

The MAJOR difference between all other platforms and the mainframe is the fact that the mainframe manipulates data stored in displacement oriented blocks. A requirement for displacement oriented data is finite length specification. This hard non-n...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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