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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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Text Entity called by element in help does not allow positioning

Adding a TEXT link after an element forces the text section in front of the element. In pacbase, we were able to provide a value in position 4 to control where that text went.
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Is a defect

Enhance DFHWB0363 to distinguish between "No client certificate provided" and "No UserID returned form ESM"

Today when a TCPIPService uses Client Certificate Authentication, we sometimes run into DFHWB0363 - A client certificate that maps to a valid userid is required. However, this message alone does not tell us if the client send a certificate that th...
almost 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Is a defect

[Tous clients]Problème de colorisation du source sur tag de fin de fonction avec édtieur cobol pdp

Hello,into a specific sub-function (created after migration from Pacbase to RPP), it there is at least one statement coming from a macrostructure, the end-label of the function is colored as a macro-line (that is wrong).The request is to correct t...
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Is a defect

[Tous clients]Supprimer le warning "For a given name, the SegmentCall must precede the DataElementCall." de RPP

Bonjour,En ouvrant le workspace local de migration sous RPP, j'ai plusieurs Warning nomm?s "For a given name, the SegmentCall must precede the DataElementCall." (plusieurs cas sur Ameriprise par exemple). Vu avec Jacques, ces warnings n'ont pas de...
almost 10 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Is a defect

UII1 should detect an online load of UIIB/UIIC and update the @UIITBL

IBM's UII logic is that: UII1 keeps the core addresses of the UIIB and UIIC (action code tables) in the global field @UIITBL and @UIITBL+4. It is done when the first input entry is processed. All subsequent entries access UIIB/UIIC using the @UIIT...
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Is a defect

IMS OSAM HIDAM DB exceeds 8GB before abending with U0844

Technical condition:During OSAM space search during update activity (ISRT or REPL), occasionally an invalid input will cause the request to exceed the blocksize.The source of the invalid input might be an overlaid block, an incorrect calculation b...
about 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Is a defect

Incomplete display of subsystems in SPOC on /DIS SUBSYS ALL

As descriped in the PMR, when in SPOC a "/DIS SUBSYS ALL" command is entered, not all information about a subsystem that uses a "<" as subsystem recognition character, is displayed. In IMS it is very well displayed.Example (SPOC):IMS3 1 CONN IM...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Is a defect

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 ...
almost 11 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 4 Is a defect

File Manager - Unable to see Entry details for IAM files

File Manager is unable to show IAM files Entry Details.It works with VSAM but not with IAM.
almost 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Is a defect

MAL pending (24) error. WLMSPEC with two owners.

A transaction (SVL$) was removed from the CRE003 transaction group and added to SEG003 transaction group. This transaction was installed in two different Specifications: SPC64$10 and SPC65$00. The SPC65$00 has two different owners: M204 and M314. ...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Is a defect