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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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RPP perspective - Keep a list of open editors from one session to the next.

Actually, when we reopen RPP worskpace, we don't have directly then opened resources that we had when it had been closed.For Java development (Eclipse, WSAD, ...) it is the native behavior: When an existing workspace is reopend, we find the same o...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

Improve CICS New Program Support messages or elimiate dependency on the CICS region which owns EQADPFMB starting first

Improve Debug Tool diagnostics, and reduce problem determination time when using DTCN with the VSAM file for AOR/TOR CICS regions. This can be accomplished by eliminating the requirement of the FOR containing the EQAPOFMB file coming up first. If ...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Need logic in IMS and DBRC to 'synchronize' the process between IMS and DBRC during termination

When an IMS /CHE FREEZE command was issued the DBRC address space took a S0C1 abend which caused the IMS Control Region to abend with an U0495. My understand is that there is a synchronization issue between the different address spaces within IMS ...
over 9 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Granularite des cs lors de la migration PACBASE vers RTC

La granularite des cs lors de la migration est au niveau component RTC (donc biblioth?que PAC). plusieurs centaines de fichiers avec le m?me change set. Cela pose probleme lors d'un report de modification d'un fichier entre deux streams si l'ordre...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

Eliminate recording mode warning

RECORDING MODE is an IBM extension that is required only to "specif[y] the format of the physical records in a QSAM file", and unless one needs format 'U' it can be assumed based on the other characteristics of the file definition. I would like to...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Ask for OPEN I-O statement set the open input flag in SMF 62

We need to make statistics on how files are used on our system. For that we use SMF record 62. But when the file is open in I-O in a Cobol Program, COBOL open the File In OUTPUT only, so the flag Input Processing in field SMF62MC1 remains to NO.We...
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

REXX Editor / RSC / Auto Completion

Hi, I'd like to request an improved REXX editor (similar to Cobol or PL/I Editors) with realtime syntax checking and auto completion capabilities.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Originating region information and recovery token needed for express messages

For express messages, the recovery token and PST number are needed in the 35 log record for diagnostic and reporting purposes. Without this information there is currently no way with only log records to associate the express message with the non-m...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow IMS to regenerate the message DFS996I without needing to restart it.

IMS WTOR message DFS996I *IMS READY* is normally outstandingto provide operator communication with the IMS region. The customer deleted by mistake the IMS message DFS996I so it had to restart the IMS in order to recover the control (please see als...
over 9 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Cobol V5 sequence detection

Detect the following sequence at compilation with a warning : 'move num-4b (binary format) to num-4p (packed format)' that can give truncation at execution
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration