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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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indication number of broken chains for onel exceeded after message recp0410i

After message recp0410i the zrecp onel display does not indicate that more broken chains were found than reported in the onel. Even better would be to report the exact number of broken chains found, even though only the first xxx are actually logg...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

No Warning in case of allowed page for a Dump overflow

En cas de dépassement du nombre de pages autorisés pour un dump, Fault Analyzer tronque le dump et émet le message d'information IDI0052I. Il faudrait que ce soit un message d'avertissement (warning) et non d'information. Le code retour devrait au...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Différence lors du Merge d'un dump avec un listing IDISYSDB ou IDILCOB entre Batch & Reanalyse

"Merge d'un dump avec un listing IDISYSDB ou IDILCOB : Il y a une différence de comportement entre la réanalyse batch et la réanalyse interactive.Lorsque le code source n'est pas en parfaite adéquation avec le load, la réanalyse interactive averti...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Is it possible during the compile to figure out that the CICS integrated translator is used, but there is no CICS statements

Is it possible during the compile to figure out that the CICS integrated translator is used, but there is no CICS statements in the source? DB2 Integrated translator throwes an error msg, if you compile and the source does not contain DB2-statements.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Provide APPEND function for Compare

When executing a compare of code in the Cobol Source Compare only offers to move/replace the blocks of code affected. An option should be offered to APPEND one change after another, which facilitates the merging of two versions of the same program
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

DTP over IPIC

Support for DTP over IPIC
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Support for SFTP Mainframe Connection in CICS Explorer

Company standards require mainframe connections to use SFTP. Today CICS Explorer supports FTP and FTP SSL/TLS but not SFTP.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

IVP and XRST processing

A example of XRST processing across warm starts, cold starts that include the OLDS wrapping using DFSDDLT0 would be very useful. We feel IVP should test SLDSREAD and this can be used to accomplish this.
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Cross Reference in CARMA Endevor

We would like CARMA to enhance to support SEARCH (cross referencing) function, which could fulfill the following: - search a particular text phrase that appear in any elements in Endeovr (system specific) - search and return a list of element whic...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Allow configurable transaction support for IMS and CICS Resource Adapter

Provide a way for consumers of IMS Connect and CICS resource adapters to specify whether the interaction with IMS or CICS should be included as part of the current transaction scope or not.
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 4 Not under consideration