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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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Switch off CMF for a specified Transaction

CEB has a web support application, a single request will lead to multiple transaction been invoked,eg CWXN, CWBA, as well as some mirror task, this will bring a huge cost to print the CMF data, so they wonder if there is a way to switch off the CM...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

ptf requirement for the function of optimized web support

here is a question from CEB customers, they are now using web support, and they are complain that there are too many transactions for a single http request, eg, CSOL, CWXN, CWBA, and they use FOR as well, so there will be mirror transaction to rea...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

zospt could provision PA report

CEB would like to know if zospt could help to generate JCL to print PA report,the input properties is kinds of parameters.
about 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

zospt could provide a image repository

CEB would like zospt provide a image repository so that they could share the image across team.ps,They may have different zospt instance,as they may have different zosmf configuration
about 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

zospt could provide function to duplicate FOR

CEB has a FOR. they'd like to provision cics region as well as the FOR, they would like to copy the files and define the files with new names in the new provisioned cics region so that the file could be opened in both existing FOR and new provisio...
about 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

zospt could provide a method to deploy a image to an existing region

CEB wonder if zospt could provide a method to apply a image to an existing region, even the region is provisioned by zospt, so that they could deploy new resources once the region is been provisioned.
about 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

Perform Hierarchy for Programming Patterns CICS

The 'show in perform hierarchy' feature of RDz shows too many Performers for RPP Screens. It works great for performs in batch, but is confused w/ screens. See the attached image. There are many Performers of F80-SCHL-R, but most are not directly ...
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Compare Function: allow for attribute value masking when using the CHECKSUM List option

Provide the ability for masking and/or wild carding of individual attributes when using the CHECKSUM LIST option.
over 12 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

RPP - Identification des entités design non utilisées

Il n'est pas possible à ce jour d'identifier les entités design qui ne sont pas utilisées, ce qui serait fort utile dans le cadre de travaux de ré-urbanisation d'applications
about 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

CICS Return Code Propagation to CTG

We require that CICS propagate full abend code details to the CICS Transaction Gateway when connected using the IPIC protocol. Currently some abend codes, such as AKCC, are not provided to theTransaction Gateway and thus cannot be passed back to t...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration