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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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ZINET ADD, ALT and DEL allow a procid. Display doesn't.

Request to enhance ZINET Display for a specific processor. Currently today ZINET function allows a procid to be specified on all but thedisplay request. Adding listeners for new CPUs we are bringing upbut I can't verify the add worked correctly wi...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Move WGTA tables above the 2g Bar

Request is to move the WGTA tables above the 2g bar in order to free up valuable space below the BAR Current allocation is 1.4 million entries today .
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Debug Tool Load Module Analyzer to show load module build date

IBM Debug Tool 13.1 Load Module Analyzer does not produce the build date (link-edit/bind date) for composite load modules. Currently the only information Load Module Analyzer provides about the load module/program object is the name, alias, AMODE ...
about 8 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

File Manager Compare - display offset

Enhance File Manager compare output to show offset when using record field display. It is possible to have several field in a cobol recordstructure with same name. The compare then shows the name only, but not which one of the fields.
about 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CBAC CICS API to support CICSPLEX

We need a CBAC CICS API that perform the equivalent functions as CBKBMAIN module. The new API enable CICS online program to interface with CBAC and perform file operations where CBAC will ensure the CNTL files for the entire CICSPLEX regions are i...
about 8 years ago in IBM CICS Batch Application Control / Runtime 0 Not under consideration

Add ISO 2014 Dynamic Capacity Tables

Add support for dynamic capacity tables as defined in the ISO 2014 COBOL Standard. These are similar to the UNBOUNDED tables introduced in V5 of Enterprise COBOL but they have fewer restrictions and are more programmer friendly. They do not requir...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Always option for Edit Template in File Manager

In the File Manager product, in the view options panel is there a way to make the Edit Template an "Always"? File Manager for DB2 allows me to do this
about 8 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Monitoring Agent for OpenStack enhanced to support v3 API

Monitoring Agent for OpenStack doesn't currently support v3 API connections. The version of OpenStack that is being used at my location is running the v3 API, as a result we are not able to benefit from the monitoring functionality provided by the...
about 8 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add clean-up of bad/orphan recoreds to REPAIR.RECON

REPAIR.RECON needs to be able to clean up bad/orphan records - especially orphan'ed LOGALLs. See 58537,L6Q,000 for details. We had LOGALL record from 2005. The CLEANUP.RECON doesn't get rid of the orphan & currently IMS 14's REPAIR.RECON will ...
about 8 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 3 Not under consideration

Support for Session ID caching in IMS Transaction Manager Resource Adaptor

We need IMS TM Resource Adapter to add support for TLS/SSL session reuse in order to reduce CPU consumption related to large numbers of full TLS/SSL handshakes. When the IMS TM RA uses TLS/SSL to protect its connections to IMS on z/OS, it appears ...
about 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / General ES 1 Not under consideration

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