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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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ProvideTS51 Supplemental Data Areas Manual for support for existing user written CICS programs

After upgrading from CICS TS41 to TS51, some of my applications are abending. Some of the data areas have moved. We wrote these applications in earlier versions with the supplemental data areas manual was available. I cannot maintain these program...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Toolkit Custom Dataset Handler

We have a 'custom dataset handler' plugin for our TPF Toolkit at Amadeus. It reads the program and version in the object file and therefore locates the correct source file in the Folder that is given. It handles a format like below (for program ST...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

ESB for Cics Liberty

I didn't found something for the ESB so I made this RFE in the CIcs Queue. We provide a SOA Environment with an Enterprise Service Bus an ODM and an Process Engine (not from IBM). In this Environment we face one big problem and this is the staging...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CTG bidirectional support

This requirement is raised on behalf of ICBC. They raised this requirement in 2014 CICS China group meeting. They want to try CTG as gateway. It is not only request from client via CTG into CICS TS, it is also request from CICS TS via CTG to other...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

capability to know workload in target region group for workload flow control

When target region group doesn't have the capability to run more workload. Customer wants a routing failure when routing from TOR to AOR.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Generate PA report in distributed platform

User want to download CICS SMF data to linux system and run PA report generation in linux system
over 10 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Open TX connect MF CICS with high availability feature base on user exit() program

In China,a important customer is developing TX series user exit() to resolve open TX connect MF CICS high availiability issue,to instead of current one to one connect between open TX and MF CICS TOR,through there are four link to make sure duplica...
over 10 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CRLF insertions occur at undesirable locations

A "Line Feed" control character insertion at offset 132 is occurring on printed output from TXSeries with CTG print deamon. TXSeries development team has identified the insertion is not a result from TXSeries. The insertion is a result from the CT...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 3 Future consideration

CLEANUP.RECON keyword to not delete ALLOC records with no DEALLOC time

It would be useful to have a keyword for the CLEANUP.RECON DBRC command that would cause it *not* to delete ALLOC records that don't have a DEALLOC time, even if the ALLOC record is older than the RETPRD specified. Similar to how there currently i...
over 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

MQ GETWAIT INTERVAL not correctly honored

MQ GETWAIT REQUEST takes longer than what has been coded in the INTERVALWAIT parameter. It seems that the cics dispatcher doesn't include the INTERVAL value (timeout) when it handle the request from MQ.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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