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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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SPI Audit retrofitted to CTS 4.2 environment.

Rrequesting the SPI Audit function be ported from CICS TS 5.1 to CICS TS 4.2. Without an auditing function for changes made though CICS explorer, we could not promote this product as a viable software solution to controlling our CICS environment. ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

OTMA settings should be in effect and honored when IMS starts to accept OTMA traffic

Customer is running with AOS=Y, but he has found that after an /ERE consequent to a IMS Cancel some CM1 Synclevel Confirm SL1 Messages were Enqueued with Affinity to FE IMS for a SERIAL PSB Transaction.Input messages arrived from MQ before restart...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

COBOL error messages diversification about INITCHECK use

Customer would like to differenziate message IGYCB7311-W based on tipology of field definition. That is a different message number for Disp-Num, Packed-Dec, Display, Binary, Disp-Num-Edit. The reason of this request is that customer would like to ...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

Cobol data type that corresponds to Db2 for z/OS DECFLOAT data type

In Db2 for z/OS you can store data as DECFLOAT. There is no corresponding Cobol data type, so when using DECFLOAT in Cobol programs we have to cast between DECFLOAT and a Cobol data type that does not intirely.We need a Cobol data type that corres...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

COBOL 6.2 behaviour: during NUMCHECK, "check" only on ARITHMETIC OPERATION

Customer uses compilation parameter NUMCHECK(ZON(NOALPHNUM), ABD) as suggested by IBM, but he would like that DISPLAY statement would be escluded by ABEND. Customer would like the "check" only on ARITHMETIC OPERATION not on other instruction. DISP...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

endevor

when I have a module that is in my project folder that is associated to endevor, I would like a way to click and release the association to endevor. This will help clean up problem that can occur that RDz may not be able to recover from. Then I ca...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Support the use of IWS Occurrence date in the ARCTIME parameter

Output Manager supports an Archive SYSOUT Configuration Parameter called ARCTIME. The purpose of this parameter is to designate the date and time to be associated with a given instance of output. Supported options are Capture, Job and Dataset. Whe...
about 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CICS PA and CPSM Topology

To help expedite CICS PA setup and region groupings it would be good if CICS PA could leverage CPSM topology. Ideally this connection to CPSM should be ongoing, such that updates to CPSM topology are reflected in CICS PA. This CPSM connection prec...
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

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

Support Micro Focus COBOL

Provide support in the Build Client for Micro Focus COBOL.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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