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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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RDz : Unexpected syntax check errors reported in a PLI file within comments

When opening a PLI file,and using the "Source -> Preprocessor statements -> Idenfity Using Specific Output File", some comments become marked with syntax check errors "Ambiguous reference to ..."
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Enhance ITOM Special Instructions to support more data

Client would like to retain up to 40 lines of data within the ITOM special instruction field used to populate report banner pages. The current size of the Special Instruction field is not sufficient to store this much data.
over 11 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

unique Connexion RDz PDTOOLS DTCN

Management easier and connections under RDz PDTOOLS allow connection from a button for example to connect to CSR DTCN PDTOOLS and to avoid the password Revoked
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

ACTIVATE THE DUMP VIEWER FROM FILE SAVED ON A REMOTE SERVER

Allow viewing a dump captured by the dump viewer stored on a remote server. It should be possible to select the dump by browsing an index or a list of files from the RSE. It should be also possible to load and activate the TPFdebug perspective wit...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Support for SOAP Header

Currently SOAP header information is ignored by DFHWS2LS as indicated on the Infocenter: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.cics.ts.standards.doc%2Fcompliance%2FWSDL.html It would be good if RDz would support ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Not under consideration

distinguish CF status between the 'deactive CF' and 'disconnect CF link'

OM XE Sysplex CF reports should distinguish between the 'deacitve CF' and 'disconnect CF link' state
over 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DFSILTA0 utility Output compatibility between before V9 and after V10

Our customer upgraded IMS from V9 to V11 recently. IMS utility DFSILTA0 output increases after upgrading IMS from V9 to V11.There is a twice as many difference as this in the number of processed transactions on a SYSOUT message. And in the number ...
over 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS JOURNAL + EIBAID + EIBCPOSN

We need to be able to journal the EIBAID plus the EIBCPOSN fields to make a sufficient audit trail, without addressing CICS internal control blocks.The best solution will be a new option to the existing DEFINE PROFILE MSGJOURNAL(INP) request to te...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() at specified LEVEL()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() EXEC CICS ASSIGN RETURNPROGRAM() EXEC CICS ASSIGN INVOKINGPROGRAM() We need the ability to make: EXEC CICS ASSIGN PROGRAM() LEVEL() Where LEVEL() is an input-parameter.LEVEL(0) returns the name of the...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()

Today you can make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE PROGRAM() USECOUNT() We need to be able to make: EXEC CICS INQUIRE TRANSACTION() USECOUNT()
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration