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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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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

SOAP and conversion services errors using EBCDIC in Cics

All the possible code point coming in from i.e. Datapower in UTF8 can't be supported in Cics. The un-supported code points will be converted to x'3F' via conversion services by default. If a round trip of x'3F' is made then it will by default be c...
about 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SQL to DLI call translation view in hex

I'd like to ask for a product enhancement. On the “SQL to DL/I Call Translation” can you show the hex values? When someone is doing an insert or delete with a partially qualified key you can't tell if the SSA is using blanks or low values. I also ...
about 9 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 2 Not under consideration

properties view keeps the values of the lastly opened program when

Hello,we from PKS Software do support Nuernberger Versicherungsgruppe with RDz. At Nuernberger the developer complain about the problem described in the next paragraph. So we opened PMR as we see this as disfunctionality (see PMR 61775 077 724). B...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

HOD Re-director Vulnerability

Users can connect to HOST session bypassing HOD client authentication by using a 3270 emulator, pointing to BigIP of HOD Re-director and Port.
about 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

New User response for msgOB8111

Customer in PMR 23357,036,724 asks for a better information on what to do for msgOB8111. Don Blair agreed on this and wrote the following new user response: "The default value for WSIZ, as used for PEEK, is 32768. This may be set to any value egua...
about 9 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include LOGSTR parameter in the RACROUTE REQUEST for IMS commands.

IMS command RACROUTE requests apparently lack the LOGSTR parameter. Change IMS command RACROUTE requests to include the LOGSTR parameter.
about 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

NEW option on save regs

Customer is ask for an enhancement to the SAVEREGS option as part of ENTRC, to be able to allow for the exclusion of individual registers, which might need to be excluded to allow for communication between the calling and called segments. All of t...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Subsystem Users Not Collecting Correctly

The subsystem user fields in Continuous Data Collection are not being captured correctly. As it works today, only the AA subsystem user is capturing message data. The other subsystem users will capture USER EXITS and ECBs, but not anything else. T...
about 9 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Syntax Check Local issue

Even if it is brought to disappear, the "Syntax Check" poses a problem of consistency in the distribution of data and we have numerous returns by users. In the workspace, this is not the same directory that is used if there's a Syntax Check "Remot...
about 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration