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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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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

Cobol V5 - Abend S0C4 in IGZCEV4 for CEEDUMP when an UNBOUNDED memory table is present

When a CEEDUMP is fired on a COBOL V5 program containing a memory table with an OCCURS TO UNBOUNDED clause, it cause a S0C4 / CEE3204S ( IGZCEV4 routine) because it is beyond the allocated memory actually in UNBOUNDED table and the dump is incompl...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Is a defect

Cobol V5 - Error displaying ARCH option in CEEDUMP - ARCH(10) shown as ARCH(0)

CEEDUMP displays the compile options of a program compiled with Cobol V5. ARCH information seems incorrect : it is returned to 0 as we compile with ARCH (10).
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Is a defect

HoD 5250 Telnet TLS-SSL

Sessions is set manually for Telnet-TLS connections. This need to be made by server centrally configuration.
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Is a defect

Control the number of DFHAP1900 messages

With the CTS 5.1 we have a valuable feature: Log of SPI - activities. But a central application must work with ... taname FEPI SET NODE(AZP050) USERDATA(KN03) RESP... ... the FEPI SET command. With round about 600.000 messages per CICS and day we ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Is a defect

modify the MSDB-to-DEDB Conversion utility (DBFUCDB0)

hi would like to know if you can modify the utility to correctly report the record count for databases with more than 32K database records because larger record counts cause it to wrap and/or be interpreted as a negative binary number. it would be...
almost 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect

File Manager Editor, display characters using selected encoding in the text representation

Using File Manager Editor, display content of the text representation using IBM-277 encoding.
over 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Is a defect

ZMDES Clean Up after zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or zOLDR Delete

1. ZMDES Manage Deployment Descriptors Process requires multi-CPU/LPAR clean up after a zDFDL Schema zOLDR Fallback or Delete. The other LPARS in the z/TPF Loosely Coupled Complex (LCC) generally do not have their tables updated until an IPL. This...
almost 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Is a defect

WUI "Active tasks" view. The previous selected data remain on the screen after a invalid selection.

On the view "Active tasks", after a previous selection, customer has informed an invalid value, e.g., in the field "Taskid". CPSM / WUI issued a error message informing the value is not valid, but the previous presented data still remain in the sc...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect

Enterprise Cobol V4/V6 - Defect - Error in mask for numeric-edited currency sign with 3 characters

There is an error in the generation of the mask that allows to edit a numeric value with both a currency symbol of more than one character, and a floating sign.At execution a part of currency symbol is lost. This concerns the Enterprise Cobol comp...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Is a defect