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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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Suppress API's for the database access (DB2, IMS/DB) via CEDF

If an application should be debugged with CEDF and frequent database accesses are uninteresting, it would be helpful to exclude DB2 and IMS/DB access API's from the CEDF stops.--- Important: No general suppress is necessary. Only as a request with...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

HA-IPCONN Peer Recovery

If an HA-IPCONN partner in the cluster fails and the connection switches to an alternate in the cluster. Once the failed partner recovers there is no way for recovery information to flow without disrupting the current HA-IPCONN path.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Have the way / possibility (i.e. a Command) to verify online who / what is occupying the WKAP Pool

As a consequence of the fact Customer randomly suffers WKAP Pool shortage condition, which in the past even lead to an ABENDU0729 then corrected (Pmr 80256,830,758 - Fixed through Apar PK88043), and recently lead to message DFS2026 INSUFFICIENT ST...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 1 Not under consideration

Automate IVP table maintenance to reduce APAR hold cards

Everytime an IVP table variable is added or updated the apar reqiures an action hold card instructing the user to merge table data. A feature should be added to IVP either to automatically inform users that a table merge is required or to automati...
over 10 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

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

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