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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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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...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

DFHCSDUP and CEDA do not have the same functionality

The confirmability and compliance in managing systems like CICS is more and more required. For this reason managing the CICS CSD with batch jobs is the preferred way because you can archive your batch job's output for inspection purposes.Because o...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 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 ...
over 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...
over 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...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 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...
over 6 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RKLVLOG with only meaningful messages

All messages in RKLVLOG should be interesting and meaningful for the customer.
over 12 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support Micro Focus COBOL

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

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...
over 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.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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