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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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Provide function similar to CALL CEETEST to allow Debug Tool to be started from a non-LE batch assembler program

Description: Currently, Debug Tool can be started by an application program by coding a CALL to CEETEST. However, this capability is limited in that it only works for LE programs. This RFI requests a similar capability for non-LE assembler program...
about 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide ability to aggregate RMF-based data (e.g. CPU, IO, Memory etc. tables) into Weekly and/or Monthly trend tables

Need ability to create aggregation tables for RMF-based data for longer term trending. For example, create MVSPM_DEVICE_W, MVSPM_DEVICE_M tables for Device activity; simillarly for MVSPM_LCU_IO_H, MVSPM_CHANNEL_H, MVS_PAGING_H, MVSPM_VS_$$$$$_H, M...
about 12 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) - Greater Permission Granularity

Currently the CICSPlex Security (CPSMOBJ) rules are limited with respect to CPSM WLM Resource Administration. The OPERATE CPSM ESM group already allows you to break access down by Type (ie: CONNECT, PROGRAM, etc.) The use case below, contains an e...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to use transaction isolation with the DFHMIRS program

The DFHMIRS program that carries out the request is defined with an EXECKEY of CICS. A CICS-key program has read and write access to CICS-key and user-key storage of its own task and all other tasks, whether or not traniso is active.In summary, th...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Undo Redo feature in File Manager

While using File Manager (perspective) in IDz, after making some modifications in a dataset / DB2 table or MQ message, we we would like to do a UNDO, but the option is disabled in the "Edit" menu. this will be very useful feature, kindly enable th...
about 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Zoom in context from zAware to IOAz timeframe mismatch

Zoom navigation to IOAz from a selected message in a zAware anomaly interval fails to find the selected syslog message. zAware passes UTC time in the search parameters. IOAz searches on the time setting selected by the user, typically browser work...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Planned for future release

Add additional IDAA fields to transaction information

Please add new fields for the number of create, drop, open, commit, and rollback statements a transaction performed in the following tables: DB2_USER_TRAN_H/D/WDB2_TRANSACTION_D/WA_DB2_USERTRAN_IA_DB2_UT_IDAA_I Each field is from the DB2 accountin...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 1 Planned for future release

Aide ? la saisie de micro-pattern

Bonjour,L'appel de micro-pattern de type WI au moyen d'un fragment RPP devrait ouvrir une grille de saisie comme c'est par exemple le cas pour le fragment appelant le micro-pattern "search". Cela ?viterait les erreurs de saisie et les mauvais posi...
about 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

Event Capture support for EXEC SQL call

Now the event capture in application program only support the EXEC CICS API, for example PROGRAM INIT or PROGRAM LINK, the data we capture in this level, maybe some raw data that not handled yet, and this is not what we want. And the final data th...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

CICS DUMP with ABCODE of x'40' or x'00'

We have a bunch of applications that don't code their EXEC CICS ABEND ABCODE(WS-CODE) correctly; they are initializing the ABCODE field with spaces or not initializing at all. I was interested in changing the abend code from x'00' or x'40' to some...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration