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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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Improve second failure data capture

Currently, when the IBM (and probably ISV) support centresneed to gather more documentation, they often go througha typical list of things that they want set.The customer then needs to implement those changes, recreate the problem and then reset t...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Index shared by multiple tables

It can be useful to be able to access the same position in a synchronized way in several tables.In this case it is necessary to use an indice (numeric data item) that is independent of each table.However, for performance reasons, it is best to use...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Accept "out of range" values in the SET index statement

The "SET SET TO integer" statement does not accept out-of-range values relative to the index reference table.For example, the statement "SET index TO 0" triggers a warning and is automatically converted to "SET index TO 1" by the compiler. We thin...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer needs method to change password

Unable to change expired password when using CICS Explorer. A message is issued at the bottom of the window that the password is expired:"IZE0106E Connect failed with error "Password expired" (Winmvs A0 RW)" (Data in brackets is the name of the co...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

customized "lookup" features of customer application help

Lookup is a feature brought from "fault anaylzer integration", customer can search message/code/error explaination thru inputting keywords. All the current feature just cover COBOL,CICS, LE and so on about z/OS project. It will be help if we can c...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Mac Analyse Client

Mac version of the Analyse Client
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

RDz Remote z/OS search - adding support for tape

Currently if you do 'Remote z/OS search', RDz can not find a dataset if it is being allocated on the tape, only if it is allocated on DASD. Please refer to PMR 93064,180,000. This is a very important feature.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 4 Not under consideration

CICS Web Support - change to include an option in WEB CONVERSE command to change the escaped to unescaped form.

CICS is receiving from a web application a HTTP request, that CICS is sending to a remote server. Then, CICS receives the reply and return the data to the web application. Now, application program is using WEB CONVERSE to send and receive the data...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Mirror transaction AutoInstall

Customer requests autoinstall because they don't want define their own mirror transactions one by one.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

W3C SOAP/JMS with CICS Webservices

CICS TS doesnot support the actual W3C SOAP/JMS specs
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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