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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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Better filter option in RDz 9.5

Maybe this is by design - but I thing you should changed that.I can select a "Retrieved Data Set" and define a New->Filter with selected dataset.This is fine and a nice little feature.But if I select two or more datasets this options is not ava...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Add support for Host Code Page /CCSID 1371 extension

Mainframe customers in Taiwan require Host Code Page / CCSID 1371 extension to support more Traditional Chinese characters in a single host code page. This is crucial for the mainframe customer to solve the pain of the insufficient Traditional Chi...
about 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 3 Not under consideration

Add new DASD IOB Dequeue User Exit to ccsons/cjiu.cpy CJJDIORM

Add a new CP User Exit to cjiu.cpy in the Common DASD IOB de-queue routine CJJDIORM to allow Customer use for monitoring, etc.
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Dynamic change of CCSID on CICS Web Services

Dynamic change CCSID on CICS Web service to use same CICS Web service for more code pages in same CICS region.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Debug Tool CICS Storage Use Reporting

Often when application programmers are testing, Debug Tool will use more storage, as is documented. Since the SIT overrides code EDSALIM=nnnM, the region will occasionally go SOS. It would be nice to have a method to determine how much extra stora...
about 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Auto install Web Service in CICS at first invocation

Auto install of web service in CICS first time it is invoked to avoid all Web Services to be installed at start of CICS.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex wide support TRANCLASS

TRANCLASS definitions should be able to be defined as CICSPlex wide, rather than only region wide. This would ensure that the MAXACTIVE value is for the entire CICSPlex.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Request CICS Web services dynamic pas language PL/1 or Cobol

Web service request Web Services are either PL/1 or cobol. Enhance to pas the language dynamically to allow one Web Service to handle both.
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Concatenate LPAR specific DSN in front of SEQATLIB

We are a large shop where we have the Debug tool set up in over 100 test regions. The test regions are on over 20 lpars. There is one IBM Debug SMPE environment for all lpars. Maintenance for the Debug Tool is shipped from this central site and in...
about 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Allow URIMAP endpoint overlay with pooling capability intact

The pooling feature of URIMAPs is highly efficient compaired to no-reuse of threads in Cics webservices. Having many different webservices being called FROM cics we would not be able to benefit from the pooling capability - unless Cics could open ...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration