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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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Ability to support multiple SSL ports

we'd like in the product is the ability to have multiple SSL ports. This would have allowed an easier transition to CLIENTAUTH and also permitted some internal interfaces to remain as they were with just SSL encryption. Anyone wanting to use CLIEN...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

AD Cobol Pre-processor extensibility to be able to generate AFTER pre-processor Cobol files

Hi Team,Kookmin bank uses the BANCS application from INFOSYS. They wanted AD to generate the AFTER Cobol files from the pre-processor extensibility instead of getting these files from the mainframe pre-processors.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

More meaningful resource attribute names

The resource attribute names in the CICS Explorer can have very cryptic meanings. When you are looking to add an attribute to the view, it is difficult to know which one to select due to the way it was named. I know the dynamic help can be used to...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Addition of Excel export functionality

Would like to be able to export analysis results such as Call dependencies and CRUD matrix to Excel. This functionality is necessary becausedevelopers look at the graphs less often, but rather do impact analysis using Excel more often.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support for open system languages

Would like to request to add support for open system languages (C, VB, PHP)
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for Fujitsu/Hitachi COBOL

Would like to request to add support for Fujitsu/Hitachi COBOL , so that we can analyze Fujitsu/Hitachi COBOL source code. At present, there are errors during analysis.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CICSPlex SM CMAS and WUI should invoke STAT transaction for statistics

Need ability to both automatically configure CICS statistics collection in a CMAS/WUI server as well as adhoc statistics collection. Add an action to the CMAS resource table for adhoc, API or CMCI requests from Explorer to have the CMAS or WUI run...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

We request that File Manager be enhanced to use some form of auxiliary temporary storage (e.g., work files) to hold change bu

We request that File Manager be enhanced to use some form of auxiliary temporary storage (e.g., work files) to hold change buffers when there is insufficient storage in the address space to complete CHANGE command processing.
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

CMDPROT for calls to External Resource Managers such as MQ and DB2.

Even with Storage Protection active in CICS, it is possible for a USERKEY application program to cause CICSKEY storage to be overlayed. This can happen if the USERKEY program specifies the address of CICSKEY storage as one of the output parameters...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Threadsafe for CFDT and shared TS access

SIA asks to add to CICS TS V5.4 the following feature, already present in CIS TS V5.5 "Access to coupling facility data tables in CICS TS V5.5 is now threadsafe Access to coupling facility data tables (CFDTs) is now threadsafe, so CFDTs can be acc...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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