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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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Allow DBRC=N for Restoring HALDB

DBRC=Y is good only when you need to perform Disaster Recovery to production region whereby it will ensure the integrity of the HALDB image copies being restored. However, most of the time DBA is performing restoration from their past HALDB backup...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Add support for dynamic arrays in the Catalog and IMS Explorer-created Database Views

REQUIREMENT: When performing some preliminary testing for accessing IMS data through the Catalog, we ran into an error for one of our segments that stated dynamic arrays were not supported when creating the PCB object. This is a potential showstop...
over 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Resolve Copybooks Within MVS Subproject Natively

Please refer to Service request number 56700,379,000. I understand the dilemma of what to do when the copybook is found in multiple subproject datasets (based on my use case) and my expectation is if that were to occur the user would get the simil...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Abend Compensation support for Distributed Workloads

Implement CICSPlex SM WLM Abend Compensation support for Distributed (DSRTPGM) Workloads.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CPSM to recognize the unavailability of a Named Counter Server.

CPSM RTA component needs to be enahnced to recognize the unavailability of a Named Counter Server, similar to the way in which TS server unavailability is recognized.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

IMS DB/Area Quiesce DBRC Enhancement

Database/Area Quiesce records that a quiesce has taken place by setting a flag in the DBRC ALLOC record. However this only applies if the database/area was actually open for update on an IMS subsystem at the time of the quiesce - otherwise there i...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Mass Macro Changes

In pacbase, we can go to the -XP of a macro and change every program that uses that macro from one screen. I could not find an option to do this in RPPz.
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Gentran compatibility with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".

We are upgrading our SAP system and the current Gentran version is not compatible with "SAP ECC EHP7 Kernel 753 patch 401" and "Netweaver 7.4".
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

IMS IVP does not connect Repository to IMS control region

IMS IVP does not connect Repository to IMS control region. The IVP creates a repository and the Repository server address space, but falls short of bringing an IMS system up and verifying/demonstrating the usage of the repository.
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

IMS DRD Security Interface

Currently we have an IMS Installation that has multiple distinct clients. We would like to use DRD to define IMS resources (Transactions, DB etc.), however we require a security interface such that each client can only create or modify resources t...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 2 Not under consideration

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