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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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PCOM FTP Client does not allow overwrite of an existing data set

If you try to overwrite or append a TSO data set using the FTP Client of PCOM you will get the message "MVS file transfer OverWrite/Append failed".
almost 8 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

There is no CICS API/SPI or command to delete the AID chain

Provide a CICS command that deletes all the AIDs lasting in the chain at once. The command SET TERMINAL(xxxx) CANCEL was used manually (see the use case) but the rate of incoming transaction were bigger than the velocity to delete the AIDs for all...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

New PPCP option to create dump reports without print headers and characters

TPF dump reports are formatted by STPP as a printable file with special print characters and a header on every page reminding the reader of the dump details and current page number.Most dumps today are too big to justify printing, the normal metho...
almost 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

IBM Explorer for zos (Aqua) - Host Connection Emulator

We are rolling out Eclipse tooling for our developers. RDz with RTC are the tools for them. For sys progs and ops engineers we position IBM Explorer for z/OS (Aqua). Since we cannot offer all functionality in the tools, we do need to use 3270 scre...
about 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 1 Not under consideration

DEDB initialzation with DBD defintion in case of no SDEP

With PMR 12291, IBM PMR asks us why we allocate 37 times oversize compare to the necessary size for the reloaded ADS and also calculates the exact required size x'DD388000' for this DEDB. Then even the customer specifies unreasonable size, IMS DED...
about 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 2 Not under consideration

Variable record hold wait queue depth

today there is a single wait queue threshold depth for all addresses. We have our value set to 100. we have 10 or so databases for which exceeding the limit of 100 is considered normal. We would like to have a variable limit, that is based on the ...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

When set program or install resources, CICS Explorer can go onto the next region without stopping if failure occurs

When using CICS Explorer to set new program or install new resources, it currently stops at the failure region. It should be able to go onto the next region without stopping.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

DebugToole: Suppressed Copybooks in Cobol Editor

In the Debug Editor, the line number is a kind of displacement, so that a suppressed Copybook affects the line number.In the Cobol Editor the line number is counting up one by one, so that the lines of the suppressed Copybook doesn't matter. We wo...
about 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

HOD 12 removed the 'go hod' menu where HOD server is configued, started, stopped, monitored and other functions

When HOD 12 was installed on AS/400 system, it was noticed that the 'go hod' menu was not longer available. This is a major function for the iSeries admins that was removed and no announce that it would be removed. This menu was in previous versio...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Planned for future release

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