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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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SQL : nommage de l'objet DB2 accédé dans la génération par opérateur SQL (FR-33558)

Reprise de le demande d'?volution Pacbase FR-33558 Bonjour, Nous ?tudions la mise en oeuvre du micro-pattern SQL pour g?n?rer les ordres d'acc?s DB2, (dans des entit?s P), et b?n?ficier pleinement des acc?s "multi-rows". Aujourd'hui, le nom de l'o...
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

Disposer d'un bouton Collapse permettant d'afficher la liste des zfolders d'un projet

Dans la vue z/OS Projects, il existe un bouton "Collapse all" pour revenir ? la liste des Projets. Nous souhaitons disposer d'un autre bouton collapse permettant sur un projet de revenir ? la liste des zfolders. N.B. : Nous travaillons en compl?me...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

INGINFO Number of history lines ?/SYS/? resources should be customizable

We start to use ihe INGSTX command to update user-defined status items. These updates generates lot of HSAL6181I messages to been seen in INGINFO Resource => MVSJ/SYS/MVSJ History : 2014-10-13 11:10:38 Status Item Update HSAL6181I Variable attr...
about 10 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 3 Future consideration

Return a status code when Application dose not using XDFLD in SSA

If program is using a PCB with PROCSEQ= , but the SSA coded in program is not the name of INDEX coded in LCHILD defined in the DBD of the secondary index . Instead , user coded the SSA names defined in the DBD of the primary DB. So the result is t...
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

CICS IA Support SQL Insert for DB2 LUW

CICS IA DB2 UDB support assumes that the data must be transferred to LUW and special scripts will be executed to import/load the data into the data base. There is no method on how to run batch jobs on z/OS to directly query DB2 UDB or load the dat...
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Datacom support

Our team uses CA-Datacom as a database for CICS applications. CICS IA does not track CICS applications that are making database queries/changes to Datacom.
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS Plugin Bit Pattern Queries

There are a variety of CICS applications that are using interfaces that are not supported by CICS IA. The ability to use the query tool to build / report on the occurrence of bit patterns within load modules would greatly enhance the functionality...
about 10 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

TAAM cambio en allocación de fichero de syntax check, permita HLQ

TAAM cambio en allocación de fichero de syntax check, permita HLQ, ya que si no, es necesario incluir en las rutinas de SMS el perfil userid.ALLOCOPT.SYNTAX
about 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Finish S option for DB2 error file Organization

There is an S option on the Dialog for generating error messages from a DB2 table. This generated a call in the generated code, but seems to be missing the connection to a DB2 table name. We would like to be able to use a DB2 table for the error f...
about 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 8 Not under consideration

Ability to control which version of IMS Explorer can connect to a IMS system

We would like the ability to control what IMS Explorer Releases our installation considers valid to connect to a IMS System. We would also like a way to send IMS Explorer users as brief notification at connect time.
about 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration