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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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Managed connections for ECI Version 2 API

ECI Version 2 application programmers have the responsibility of explicit connection management. This means either:1. Creating home-grown connection management logic, allowing connections to be pooled for efficient re-use, avoiding the overhead of...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Suppress/Circumvent MVT messages

I've been requested to ask IBM if they can provide a method of circumventing the MVT Validation during IPL/Restart of a VPARs System. We currently have many 1/2 test systems (1K modules) which when IPL'ed against create pages and pages of errors b...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Support 4K RSA Encryption/Decryption via Crypto

The Dept. of Treasury is requiring us to adopt stronger security standards, such as using >2K public/private RSA keys, specifically, 3K or 4K keys. The issue is performance-related (CPU). The z/TPF OS has only put in support to call the crypto ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Can VMWARE images be used to clone Application Discovery to another VMWARE server?

Customer has VMWARE managing Application Discovery (AD)Clients, AD batch server/graphdb/config server, and MS SQL Server. Customer wants to utilized VMWARE backups to clone AD to other VMWARE servers.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CMCI JVM Server does not display Application Data information in response to NETSTAT CONN APPLDATA SERVER command

When the following command is issued under TSONETSTAT CONN APPLDATA SERVER TCP TCPIP FORMAT LONG The tradtional CMCI server port returns the following information CICSWS55 00169D2B Listen Local Socket: ::..5559 Foreign Socket: ::..0 Application Da...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Utilisation (Remplissage) d'un PDS

Je ne retrouve pas sur RDz les informations ? Current allocation ?, ? Current Utilization ? et ? Dates ? des PDS, visibles sur le 3.2 de TSO, et utiles ? nos d?veloppeurs.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

Macro parameter screenorientation is not documented

1. Macro parameter screenorientation is not documented in the Knowledge Center 2. The possible values true/false are not self-explaining, the parameter screenorientation should be documented describing the results of the values true/false. 3. In p...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Would like to view Fault analyzer history

Would like to be able to view the information from the H (Duplicate history) option in Fault Analyzer.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement to DFHLS2WS

Enhance DFHLS2WS to support PL/I PIC'999' fields for input structures and any style PL/I PIC field for output. At run time, the data mapper should treat the fields as character fields. Right now the developer has to create addtiional structure def...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 8 Not under consideration

Customer BNYM - Partitioned Dataset Source for a Project: wildcarding as a way to subset PDS source

AD 505.0 Customer: Bank of New York Mellon Customer installation uses a single PDS for JCL for the entire installation. Assigning this single PDS to a project is not desirable. Customer, who has worked in several large financial institutions, asse...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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