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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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More Informative Error Messages in Build Client

In Build Client, when running the CHECK function and a module is encountered that does not conform to the current folder being Checked - the CHECK function fails with a verification error. A module name is not shown in the Build Client Window. CHE...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

New RDO field "OWNER" for CICS resources

Based on the increasing Audit requirements, we are expected to maintain owners of each CICS resource. This way we always know who owns each resource and identify any fraudulent usage. We are looking for a new RDO field for all CICS resources (OWNE...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add SPOOL wait time to monitoring clocks

In our monitoring offering we have been asked to provide a spool wait time as part of the overall transaction wait times. Most of the data we collect comes from the CICS monitoring clocks and counters interface however CICS does not provide a metr...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Animator feature in Application Discovery

Request for animator-like feature in Application Discovery that allows users of the Analyst client to step thru the program source code as if they are in debugging mode. When decision point is reached such as IF/ELSE condition, the system will pau...
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

IMS

When you want to serialize temporarily a transaction, you can for example change the parlim of the transaction and set it to "none"To do that, you have to enter the following command :/[Deleted] PARLIM 65535 TO TRAN xxxThis is not "natural"Could t...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Not under consideration

Usage search with relational name

As a developer; I would like the usage search to return all cross references for an element, including references to the Relational Name (defined as Type 'R' in the -D Lines of the element) in programs.
over 6 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

COBOL PARMCHECK Enhancement

6.2 Programming Guide states: The PARMCHECK option tells the compiler to generate an extra data item following the last item in WORKING-STORAGE. This buffer data item is then used at run time to check whether a called subprogram corrupted data bey...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Buld Decisions Ability Enhancment

Enhancement thought: Build Decision with Replacement = start:length in addition to PATTERN and TOKEN. “Original String” would be found in that position of record, “Replace with” would replace entire length, padded with spaces. RegEx matching would...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

CicsTs liberty features in windows and linux

This RFE adresses the developer experience: 1) During development we need to change the maven dependencies in a way not fitting to a normal workflow (for example JCICS Classes). 2) with liberty features for windows and linux we could just take ser...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deployed resource files in Cics Bundle

This RFE adresses the developer experience: We have the need, that a developer wants to deploy extra files to the unix file system related to an application. -> application configuration file-> application resource file-> logging configur...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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