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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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Make DFH_STC_ID in Image overriddable

To have only one template and not multiples each stage it should be possible to override the DFH_STC_ID value in an image.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / Workflow 1 Not under consideration

AD to support TWS for Distributed

Provide TWS / IWS distributed support in addition to mainframe
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TPFDF Data Events Specification CollectOpen to be a parameter for collectionType=Subfile

collectOpen at the <lrecIncludeAll> or <lrecIncludeList> level means all LRECs in the database must be accounted for if the collectionType = Subfile. If LRECs are added to the database, then the EVSPEC must be kept in sync.
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

TPF MongoDB Error Logging

Enhance TPF MongoDB logging to log all errors regardless of logging configuration for a particular collection. Errors should be logged in such a way that if several concurrent errors of the same type occur the number published to the logger is lim...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

DL1 : Produce Log on READ access

We have some database containing sensible data that should not be read by unauthorized persons.For PCI-DSS compliance (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) for example, you need to log the access to these sensible data.Our request is that...
almost 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 2 Not under consideration

/VUNLOAD command for Local VSO is available during application processing.

/VUNLOAD command for Shared VSO during application processing works fine. But for Local VSO, it causes status code FH.
almost 7 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TPFDF Data Events to Trigger in CRAS state

Data Events currently do not trigger below norm state. However, there is currently multiple utilities (similar to some incoming transactional processes) that are executed intentionally on a processor that has been removed from the complex (meaning...
almost 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Génération utilisateur – user build depuis RPP

Actuellement il n'est possible de faire un user build depuis la vue « Projet z/OS ».Ceci se fait via un clic droit sur le fichier *.cbl. Nous aimerions pouvoir lancer un user build :1) Depuis la vue explorateur de design de RPP, avec demande de co...
almost 7 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

cics graphql support

On this years CAF you told us the future of the CMCI interface would be a graphql interface. After some investigations I now clearly see the advantage of this form of requests. So I would like to have a possibility for PL/1 / Cobol to do the same....
almost 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

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