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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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UOW LOCK MODE using has hash value

Now, UOW LOCK MODE user are using same hash value.As a result, False contention causes more than necessary, if multi processing are working on parallel.UOW Lock should use different hash value.This improvement will reduce false contention in case ...
about 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

BMS Send Map and Receive Map support for CICS Java

BMS Send Map and Receive Map support for CICS Java
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Provide a interface for using debug as

Need a interface to call the debug as functionality in RBD in order that customer can use the debug as in their plug-in
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Provide icon hoverover feature to reduce learning curve times.

It would be great if there was the ability to see more information about what each and every icon represents when a mouse hoverover is performed. Being used to a greenscreen world all of my career, getting in and using RDz in Eclipse has been chal...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

Fix Step Start Time request under CICS

Provide Fixed Step Start Time functionality under CICS
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

New TPFDF DBCLS option DETAC_NORELEASE to allow reuse of a DETAC chain

This enhancement is for a new option on the TPFDF DBCLS macro, similar to the DFCLS_NORELEASE but it would also retain any DETAC chains and reuse them when the next DBOPN is issued on that file, provided that DBOPN also uses DETAC and NOHOLD optio...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

RDz Host Connection Emulator font type

We would like to set/change the RDz Host Connection Emulator font type.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Debugging multiprocess/multithreaded applications

When debugging multiprocess/multithreaded applications if the parent ECB has a EVMWC code and is waiting for the child to post an to the event. If we set the parent ECB running – we will get timeout from EVNWC and the application does not behave c...
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

New Attribute Items to be included for USS Mounted FS - MVS System

The Following attribute Items need to be included in USS Mounted File Systems    Attribute Group for MVS System. 1) Space Available (GB) 2) Space Available (KB) and 3) Space Available Percent......Thank You
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

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