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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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Communicate with Remote Logstash Instance in a Standard Format

Create a standard format to be pushed by the z/TPF system to a remote Logstash instance in an attempt to limit the need for custom logstash plugins.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add Proxy Use to Enhanced HTTP Client

Update the Enhanced HTTP Client to be able to connect through a proxy via supplied parms for the new HTTP client API. The "old" HTTP client allowed proxy usage.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

PL/1 align Left / align Right Functions

I have seen the new functions in PL/I 5.1/5.2 for inserting characters behind and befor a string (LEFT,RIFHT). First a thaught this would be functions to align a string in an variable storage, because this is what I am searching for, but when I tr...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Simplify left/right

I know you wanted to have all possibilites in left / right, but I think the 2 parameter in the functions should be optional, because no programmer wants to spezify the length of the target. If I have an "=" the left side is the target, the length ...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

HOD 12.0.0: add support for the eclipse 4.x version

Trying to use the product inside eclipse 4.7 the plugins, as are packaged by the utility present in the product to be used in eclipse, cannot be installed within version 4.The problem comes from how plugin.xml and fragment.xml are made: they don't...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

Need support for adding tabs to DojoTabContainer without full refresh

The current implementation of DojoTabContainer is subject to a problem that exists with common browsers such as Firefox in that when a tab is added to the container on the fly EVERY tab refreshes its contents. IBM provided a work-around for this t...
over 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Zospt could reproduce the current existing CPSM together with the data

BOC have several suite of CPSM, and would like zospt to quickly re-produce the exactly same one, including the topology and the data including the repository data and CSD data
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

Zospt could customize the created region JCL

For now, zospt will provision a CICS region by build a customized JCL, however, some steplib like SDFJAUTH, and SCEERUN2 is not been required by BOC,they don't put them into the apf list, so that this will leads to a start up error.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

Zospt provide the ability to maintain/manage existing systems

Zospt could extract the properties from the existing CICS or other systems and maintain this into a template or property file so that it could easily maintain the current system in case it been destroyed by exception.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration

reopen of ID: 109777

My understanding was that IBM was now going to work on developing a change to address ID: 109777 , RCT ID: 89883 , other ID: 105737 but have not seen any update to it regarding this statue change. I also added a new comment as base on further read...
over 6 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 3 Not under consideration