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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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RDz : Unexpected syntax check errors reported in a PLI file within comments

When opening a PLI file,and using the "Source -> Preprocessor statements -> Idenfity Using Specific Output File", some comments become marked with syntax check errors "Ambiguous reference to ..."
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Status of all the connections defined in the Z/OS project view

In the Z/OS perspective we need to get the status of all the connections defined in the "Remote System" view. As we have several environments and we are regularly facing time out issues we need this clearly until the component level we are updated.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

CICS IPIC use of Sysplex Distributor for High Availability and Workload Balancing purposes

We would like CICS to use Sysplex Distributor to balance workload from a requester region in a SYSPLEX to several server regions in another SYSPLEX over IPIC connections on every transaction execution. Our requirement is similar to RFE 24351 but a...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Information about CPU consumption in CTG per request inclusion in CH51 trace

We find a lack of information in the CPU consumption per request in CTG. We use CICS PA and there is no way of getting this information in any report. We have shown a similar interest in Req Id 21847.But our requirement is:We would like to know th...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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