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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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New User Exit for DBCLS

We would like a new user exit case that can be used at DBCLS.
about 5 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 3 Not under consideration

Navigation au sein d'un programme C depuis Eclipse

Dans un z/OS project, lorsqu'on souhaite voir le contenu d'une fonction appelée dans un programme C mais qui est définie dans un autre source C (Touche F3), nous avons le message « could not found symbol nom_de_la_fonction in index ».
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Internal Trace should not be allowed to be disabled

Opening this RFC on behalf of the customer in PMR 67263,122,000. They experienced a 2-byte Storage Violation in a TIOA. They run with internal trace turned off, so no history of the storage was visible in the trace table. They were asked to turn a...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

archecker include new switches/options

Please add a "-y" or -"YES" switch to achecker. This would allow us to check the archive in the script right after the archive without human interaction. There are multiple way to check to see if previous program failed ( && and $? with test)
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

ZSVTT entry will not validate spares for fixed records

We can only validate fixed records and pool records but NOT spare records. Sabre doesn't use the alternate FCTB loader so I'm concerned that we have to IPL the system (downtime if it's a single processor) to load a second FCTB just to validate the...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Sort Tabs in Remote Shell View

When we have several tabs open in the the Remote Shell view, it would be very helpful if we could sort them in the same way as we can sort the tabs in the editor.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 2 Not under consideration

Support Remote files for EST Project Explorer

The "EST Project Explorer" view used for creating IMS SOAP XML Gateway converter modules should allow remote files for source copy books, WSDLs, etc.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 2 Not under consideration

Support for calling Non-LE OS 31 linkage from xlclang++ in 64 bit mode.

Allow calling existing legacy Non-LE OS 31 from xlclang++ in 64 bit mode. Allow the generation of the OS 31 parameter list. It is the responsibility of the caller to make sure addresses and memory are below the bar. The compiler merely generates O...
over 5 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Future consideration

Allow for predefined Event Adapter/Adapterset restrictions in CICS region

The ability to force the use of specific Adapters/Adaptersets should be an option to CICS (perhaps through a SIT option or ESM call). This would allow organizations with specific requirements for the controls on Adapters to prebuild approved ones ...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

real in Storage Repository as replacement for EQAUOPT files

As of today, the performance using the EQAUOPT file as profile for starting up Debug Tool may be very CPU consuming in specific cases.1:Delayed Debugging, if activated and the pattern match code does not match immediately but somewhere down the ch...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Future consideration