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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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DOCX Built-in Function for Creating .docx Output

We'd like the ability to generate a true .docx document from a PL/I program. We currently generate documents from a PL/I program that we subsequently transmit to users via email (using SMTP from a clist), however the document is not a true .docx d...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 7 Not under consideration

New PlaceHolder for Interceptor jobs in TWS

Hi Team, Issue: Interceptor collector job is failing due to below error: +++ CONMAN: AWSBHU076E Conman cannot process the issued command. The following error occurred: AWSBHU510E The following job already exists: "EB4SAP-DB#GT_I_NPS_CRM.A020031955...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

ISM was not designed to support multiple lines for regular expression matches (which includes new line , white space etc..)

ISM 7.4 was not designed to support multiple lines for regular expression matches (which includes new line , white space etc..)
over 8 years ago in IBM Communications Server for Data Center Deployment / Other 0 Not under consideration

SENTENCECASE and TITLECASE

The PL/I compiler has built-in functions for LOWER and UPPER case conversions, but having SENTENCE and TITLE case built-in functions would be very helpful. They should also have a provision to preclude a portion of the string that is being convert...
over 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Performance impact when compiling with DB2 coprocessor

When preparing a Cobol-DB2 program with integrated DB2 coprocessor, the Cobol compiler generate an unique SQLDA and feeds it before each SQL access, (DB2 pr?-processor generate an independant SQLDA for each SQL access, and resolve host-variable ad...
over 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 10 Not under consideration

Support de la génération de TRIGGER pour les Blocs de type Q2 (DB2)

Nous souhaiterions que la g?n?ration de TRIGGER soit support?e pour les Blocs de type Q2 (DB2). Ce support doit ?tre effectif pour Pacbase et pour Rational Programming Patterns.
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Supporting JOBCORRELATOR in RDz JES Job Filter

In RDz your are only allowed to create filters using:owner, job name prefix, job status job class and job output class It would be really nice if the job correlation feature was also introduced in RDz.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

RDz v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism.

Rational Developer for System z v9 lacks the functionality that integrates the preprocessor extension points and the error feedback mechanism. The current extension point preprocessors are designed to be used only for describing text transformatio...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Host On Demand for z/OS - Admin user ID And password encryption.

The Administrator users ID and passwords are stored in plain text in ConfigAgentParms.Data in the private directory of Host On Demand for z/OS. From security standpoint this can be improved with making them at least minimally encrypted. We would l...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Not under consideration

GDPS/GM: checking valid CGROUP(NO) value for Global Copy

GDPS/GM does not check whether CGROUP(NO) has been specified for all its Global Copy paths. This can lead to undesirable effects (ELB) when a pair gets suspended.In a pure Global Mirror solution a deadlock would happen when applications were not a...
over 8 years ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

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