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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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IMS Group Attach feature for CICS connection

Currently CICS must use DBCTLID in DRA macro DFSPRP or CICS SIT parm INITPARM to specify the name of DBCTL region. BMP allows usage of the IMS group name instead of the IMSid to connect to any IMS member on the partition it is schedule. CICS DBCTL...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Only one STC for RS and RM in DRD environment

RM is the IMS Resource Manager and it is required when DRD is implemented with RS. So the resource manager needs another STC as a slave to maintain the files where are stacked the resources.This new STC have to be added to start-up, stop and surve...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Common Service Layer 2 Not under consideration

Allow multiple selections in CICSplex Explorer view

We use CICS Explorer to view and manipulate CICS resource definitions in a large environment. The two options for selection are context and region. We need the ability to select multiple regions within a context. Not sure if this feature was delie...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Exporter les instances RPP dans un fichier .xmi grâce à la commande rpp.bat

Bonjour, Sous Eclipse, nous avons aujourd'hui la possibilité d'exporter les instances d'un repository RPP dans un fichier xmi en cliquant droit sur ce dernier > Export. Il faudrait permettre d'obtenir le même résultat via une commande du rpp.ba...
over 5 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

PL/1 Pointer support creating CICS Business Events

The Customer has been running a PoC for creating CICS Business Events to be emitted to IBM Business Monitor. Unfortunately the customer is using pointers in their Commarea instead of data, so building the Events using CICS Explorer does not work. ...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

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...
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Is a defect

Support application bundles

There are more and more application in ICBC. They required whether we can provide a bundle feature like CICS TS. Then they can install their application using one package. It should be easier to managed. This feature can work with web admin single...
over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

HRECALL PDS automatically when using CTRL + F

execute CTRL + F on PDS. PDS is migrated. RDz never returns anything... no error message, no PDS members... nothing. Enhancement is to automatically recall the PDS and continue processing as usual.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

Set prefix to IPIC connection

CTG is connecting (IPIC mode) to 3 AOR, same transactions exécuting on this aor with TSQ sharing. Sometimes we have problèms with TSQname (TERMID,TRANID,xxx) because same transaction executing on two AOR with the same termid. We need possibility t...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

JVM Server and JCICS supported in TXSeries

ICBC pain point on TXSereis migration, they must compile all application, and test all of them after migration, it's a big effort for customer. For the adapter to Oracle DB, need to compile the adapter everytime when migration. Jave has no problem...
over 11 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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