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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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RFE for Pipeline PRVIDENH corrupted; possible HFS access conflict issue

Overview of the issue : The pipeline is getting disabled when there is a problem copying the configuration file from the HFS directory. (Please refer to the PMR "82719 122 000 " for more details). Enhancement : As suggested per the PMR, we would l...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

Data Binding for XML and JSON

The standard industry approach to handling JSON and XML payloads is to use a data binding solution (has objects that serialize and deserialize XML or JSON streams directly). Data Bindling objects are compiled from message specifications e.g. XSD f...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

IMS "wsdl first" WebServices: Reduce size of DFSPWSH message header (i.e. @dfs_async_msg_header)

Every web service request and response contains a first segment to transfer meta data, i.e. the @dfs_async_msg_header included DFSPWSH. The size of this header is fix for every request/response and is more then 5KB, mainly because of large field d...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Copy selected fields from a record returned from SQL query

User want to have a feature to copy selected fields in a record from SQL results. Currently the copy option apply to whole record.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

* selection for Dictionary API

Require a name extraction API from the new Dictionary (replacement for ACBLIB).The current API allows extraction of IDBD and IPSB defined database and program specifications.In addition to this we require a API that allows all or some information ...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

FINIS macro should allow user to configure patch area size

The FINIS macro is included in every online TPF assembler program and has a fixed 1024 byte constant intended as a program patch area.We never had occasion to use this patch area as an OLDR load is a far safer and convenient method of resolving a ...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Need an INUSEBY option for all CEMT INQ restype(xxxxxxxx)

We need a new 'INUSEBY' option for all CEMT INQ restype(xxxxxxxx) (and SPI interface as well) to return list of tranid/task# that are currently using that specified resource. It would be only for non-generic queries.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Templates are not available from Cobol and Model Macro Editor

When editing a Macro, Templates and CTRL+Space are not available.Templates and CTRL+Space are available from the PDP Cobol editor.
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration

allow profiles to be setup with “RECOVERY ON” so UNDO commands can be performed in Edit mode.

Provide the ability to allow profiles to be setup with “RECOVERY ON” so UNDO commands can be performed in Edit mode. This capability has been in ISPF Edit. It's a huge omission not to allow edits to be undone within File Manager; in essence, forci...
over 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Using "Problems" view for PL/1 and Cobol warnings/errors

Currently it's only possible see problems in PL/1 and Cobol programs as warnings, and only highligted in inside the editor on the left and right side of the editor. It would be much better to integrate this functionality with the eclipse Problems ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

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