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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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Limiting the number of trace files in Performance Analyzer

System: z/TPF Toolkit Performance Analyzer Actor: Program developers using the Toolkit PA Description: It's possible for Performance Analyzer (PA) to run a whole heck of a lot of times if the program(s) being analyzed for a given registration entr...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Nested WSDL for IMS SOAP Gateway

Customer needs to map, generate and deploy a callout WebService into IMS Soap Gateway.Usually he imports WSDL and COBOL copybook into RDz, do mapping, generate artefacts and finally deploy into soap gateway.Customer needs to use a WSDL that import...
over 10 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Track the time an ECB spends on a CPU Loop list

Collect information either by ECB/SWB or by CPU Loop list of the longest time (high watermark) an item that was placed on a CPU Loop list had to wait before being serviced.
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Allow HLASM to run on an x86 Linux server

Currently the HLASM build only works on a Linux system running on a zSeries mainframe, this restriction means we must purchase an IFL and mainframe storage to run just one Linux server, the TPF Toolkit guest.This IFL runs on the same hardware as o...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Only allow some dump code for a sepecified transaction

BOC would like to take a dump(code xxxx), but it will take effect on all the transactions, they only care about some special transaction, and they would not like to so much dump from many transaction be taken. So they would like CICS could provide...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide granularity for activating RRS

At present RRS can only be activiated via the RRS paremeter in the IMS Control region. The RRS overhead is excessive, so we need the ability to turn it on as and when needed, preferably at the individual transaction level.
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Behaviour of comma operator in C++

We use multiple C and C++ compilers, including IBM XL C/C++ for AIX V11.1.0.18. XL C++ appears to treat comma expressions differently depending if they are an argument to a return statement or a function or if they are used elsewhere. This behavio...
over 10 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Not under consideration

LPEX line folding also in "new" editors such as PL/1 and JCL

In the LPEX editor it's possible to search and filter all lines which doesn't contain some specific characters. The user can then find relevant line, and expand code again. To my knowledge this functionality doesn't exists in PL/1 and Cobol editor...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

[Tous clients]Incoherence sur la vue compare a la validation des templates d ecart isocode

Lors de la validation de la migration pour un programme, on ouvre une fenetre de comparateur entre le genere a l'image de Pacbase et le genere de RPP. Cette vue doit montrer les ecarts de code entre les 2 versions du programmes et elle devrait etr...
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

CLP(Command Line Processing) on IMS

CLP is written in below IMS V13 information center.http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/SSEPH2_13.1.0/com.ibm.ims13.doc.apg/ims_dynamicsqlapp.htm But, it's not really supported. We need CLP on USS like DB2 CLP.
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / DLI 1 Not under consideration

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