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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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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

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