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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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TACM product enhancement request

Hi, I would like to request and product enhancement to TACM. We are running on TACM V2.5. Please ask the TACM development team if they can build a monitoring/display/alert via the 3270 session for TACM, to monitor free space on a volume where a IC...
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Payload string values that are too long cause Web Service and API runtime errors

CICS requires a maximum length to be specified (implicitly or explicitly) for all string fields in Web Services and APIs. However, interfacing systems often don't have max length restrictions on strings (especially if they are not mainframe-based ...
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Simpler color corrections

As a developer, I would like to be able to make font/color adjustments while looking at my own code. The current method involves changing them when looking at some sample code in the preferences menu. Ideally, I would be able to change those setti...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications even in production environments.The output from PL/1 programs with PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Ter...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Using symbolics in DTSU files

Just wondering if we could use symbolics on the DTSU panel. It would be helpful for testing here and imagine the customer would like it too. That way they wouldn't have to change their DTSU files as much on release changes. It would save us and th...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

ITS

Customer's EGL project will translate EGL program into Java program running on WAS server and COBOL program running on CICS. If the Java program and COBOL program have the different parmForm type (COMMPTR and CHANNEL), in some special cases, it wi...
over 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

ZVFAC USAGE to show files and finds rather than simply accesses

The ZVFAC USAGE display gives total accesses which includes both find and file activity, for more clarity the display could be enhanced to show separate totals for file and find type accesses.
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 8 Not under consideration

VFA performance suggestion

Whilst testing an application that issues thousands of FILECs on a specific VFA Immediate file address we saw the ZVFAC USAGE display never showed more than one access.This is because VFA uses a new buffer if the current one has the write active b...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

SIT parms changed - when become active at warm start

When you change parameters in the CICS SIT, then some parameters become active at CICS warm start (e.g.AKPFREQ) others not (e.g. MAXOPENTCBS). With NEWSIT=YES all paramters get active. Customer wants to know which parameter get active at CICS warm...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Kerberos with CICS Transaction Gateway

We would like to use Kerberos authentication over/with CICS Transaction Gateway.
over 5 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Not under consideration