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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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Support Conversational Transactions on ISC TCP/IP for CICS - (Synchronous)

IMS already support asynchronous ISC TCP/IP for CICS and we would like to use this kind of connections for conversational transactions (synchronous). With this we will change our comunication between IMS and CICS from APPC SNA to TCP/IP.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Track the number of heap requests and releases for AVL1-5 per ECB

Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of ECB heap requests (malloc/calloc/ralloc) for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add 5 ECB counters to track the number of releases of ECB heap for each of the AVL1-5 chains.Add the new counters to ZMOWN.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Planned for future release

Access Traditional TPF Databases with MongoDB API

Enhancement to z/TPF MongoDB API to accept and process mongo functions against non-TPFDF databases by utilizing the tdbi collection descriptor.
over 4 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Add column search filters to Data Elements View

We'd like to have more advanced search filters in the Data Elements View: Currently you're only able to search within the "Name" column but we'd like to search / filter also in other columns like "Declared in" etc...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

File Manager GUI plugin - Grouping of suppressed records does not display single mode

We did some testing and found that not selecting ‘Group Suppressed Records' the host returns the IMS segment data via theXML. When you click on a an IMS segment the FM Plugin can easily use this IMS data to populate the single dialog box. With ‘Gr...
over 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

RDz- add date/time stamp to IRZ msgs on mainframe

Request to have time (date) stamp on the IRZ msgs. It becomes very diffiuclt at times trying to match up the error msgs between IMS Soap Gateway, IMS COnnect, and IRZ msgs produced by IRZCLCNV
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Generated code structure view - Keep the value of the 'Filter' field from one session to the next

Actually, when we reopen RPP workspace, we loose the value of the 'Filter' field (Generated Code Structure View) defined in the last session.
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

CICS ECI request: TPNName should not override TranName when both informed

TPNName should not override TranName when both informed on an CICS ECI request
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

Lack of function “locate” in the view Design Explorer

Lack of function ?locate? in the view "Design Explorer". In RPP you can put a filter in the Design Explorer.But it is possible to create only one filter at a time with this view.This is not very convenient. If you use the synchronize function (dou...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Retrieve user and password from HTTP header

We have an EGL service which calls several RPG programs. In order to run these RPG programs under the loggod on user we pass the user and password to the EGL service as parameters.We rather pass the user and password in the HTML header (using Serv...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 6 Not under consideration

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