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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 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...
almost 9 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 ...
almost 9 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...
almost 9 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Support of LINKB modules in AD

We got the final update from AD development regarding the support for LINKB Modules as below:- "Unfortunately there is no other solution for this case, with PgmModuleMap.txt file all JCL flow was automatically pointing to the right programs. We do...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Allow IMS to connect to a specified DB2 region. Allows DBD Exit to interface with DB2 on update to IMS DB segment.

Add ability for File Manager for IMS to connect and communicate to a specified DB2 region when using BMP. In an actual environment, IMS does connect/communicate with DB2. Does not appear it can be done with File Manager (appears it can be with Fil...
over 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add a Built-in Function to Invoke the SVC99 Service to the PL/I Compiler

Access to the SVC99 service from PL/I is lacking and must currently be done via a call to an intermediate assembler program. Can a built-in function to access the SVC99 service be added to the compiler?
almost 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enhance COBOL Save Actions for Copybooks

Have a look at the Save Actions page for the COBOL editor: Under "Copybook Files" there are only 2 options (whitespace / format). This suggests, only these 2 options are configurable for copybooks. In reality also all settings under "Source Files"...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Future consideration

CHANGEMAN BASELINE NEEDS TO SUPPORT DIVERSE FILE TYPES

Customer (Public Bank Berhad), running Application Discovery 5.1.0.5 has CHANGEMAN Baseline that contain various types of z/OS source files: Cobol, Assembler, etc. Currently, the build client cannot separate elements of Baseline into the Applicati...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Option in IA to use applid or region id in Explorer integration queries.

In CICS IA the data is collected against the CICS APPLID and that is correct. Currently the integration from CICS Explorer to CICS IA uses the applid. It would be good if CICS IA could provide an option setting to use region name or applid in the ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Export in Search View

In Remote Search View you can export the result to a file and there are columns showing information about found members.The same functionality would be nice for a loacal file search where the result view is very simpel. No columns and no export.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

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