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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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Leverage an HSM exit to drive Advanced Archive

Allow Advanced Archive to be directed via an HSM exit. In this way during its normal processing an HSM migration exit can be leveraged to determine if HSM should handle the migration or it can leave the target dataset alone and direct Advanced Arc...
over 6 years ago in IBM Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm 0 Planned for future release

CHECK at the Folder Level

Would like to be able to right-click on a Folder and run the CHECK function for that folder only. Would like to see a change in the Icon when a member has all components already available as of the last time CHECK was run. Would like to have a dat...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

New CICSPA for other wait time

In SMF110 records the suspend time field is the sum of all CICS wait times + "other wait time". We would like to have "other wait time" as a CICSPA field in order to rapidly identify if the problem is a CICS issue or a z/OS issue.
over 6 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 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.
almost 13 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Waterfall library display.

i'm facing, several times now, since i start coding with RPP a problem with data creation/ modification. With PACBASE data elements, "segments" and data structure were defined in to libraries. The libraries itselves were hierarchicaly organized in...
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 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...
over 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...
over 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...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 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...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Mac Analyse Client

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