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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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Fix to long running CSLUSPOC

When I run a batch CSLUSPOC program with the following command, "EXPORT DEFN TARGET(RDDS) RDDSDSN(IMSVS.TEST.BATCH.RDDS) TYPE(PGM) + OPTION(ALLRSP)", against an IMS that has > 100,000 DRD resources, the job takes 40-50% of the CPU for a couple ...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Provide completion indicator and link to job output from Carma batch jobs

At our company developers are used to submit all Endevor actions in the foreground (in ISPF) and wait until the action completes. Once the action has finished they are immediately taken to the Endevor output from this action so they can see the re...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

Export to desktop copybook

Not able to do a search or export a copy from the template editor.
over 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

CCSID / Codepage 1377 EBCDIC with HKSCS-2008 support should be added to RDz Client V8 & V9

Currently, the RDz V8 & V9 Client only support Host Code page IBM-937 for Traditional Chinese. However, IBM-937 does not support HKSCS (Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set) standard. RDz Client should be enhanced to support Host Code Page IB...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

MIAM - Lister les programmes (P & O) en variante de g?n?ration N

Bonjour, Dans Pacbase, il arrivait de dupliquer un programme en conservant le m?me nom externe lors de maintenance importante (m?me s'il aurait ?t? pr?f?rable de travailler avec des sessions...).Pour ?viter les confusions, l'ancien programme passa...
over 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 5 Not under consideration

We would like a mechanism for resetting all of our sender channels sequence numbers.

When we get into a situation where we know the sequence numbers of all channels have been compromised, would it be possible to have an entry to reset the sequence number on all sender channels? This would be helpful on our test systems after a res...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Not under consideration

Improve setting Monitor commands for Working Storage Variables

Improve the ease of requesting variables to be monitored by allowing the M prefix command for variables defined in the working storage section. Also, create a new command MG, which would monitor a group variable (MONITOR LIST GROUP varname). This ...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Usability improvments to Debug Tool

Improve usability. Make the product appear more "customer friendly" rather than allowing the underlying technology or product to respond in ways that confuse the customer. There are several requested improvements.a) If a CEEOPTS TEST parameter is ...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Suppressing reset of BLW offset

Fault Analzyer currently resets offsets in the dump under certain conditions, This makes it difficult to following addressing when users have to manually recalculate the displacement when searching the dump.
over 10 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

QUERY TIMESTAMP output order

The output order of the TimeStamp fields (TimeCreate, TimeUpdate, TimeAccess, TimeImport) is different for QUERY TRAN, QUERY PGM, QUERY DB (we don't use Fast Path, so I don't know about routing codes).QUERY TRAN NAME(xxxxxxxx) SHOW(TIMESTAMP) has ...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 Is a defect

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