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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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Long qualified structure fields cannot be monitored in the Debug Tool GUI using CICS explorer

Debug Tool GUI using CICS explorer, neither COBOL nor PLI have the possibility to list or monitor variables which have long names, additionally are part of structures and need to be qualified. See the following COBOL example: DISPLAY LONGDECL_IN_S...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Hour Glass should let a user know the date/time request is invalid.

Hour Glass does not let a user know that they submitted an invalid date/time request. All we need if for Hour Glass development to issue at minimum an informational message in the JCL job/CICS region...etc that the date/time request submitted is i...
over 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add tran code to HWSD0252W msg

We recently had a problem involving messages sent from IMS Connect clients timing out. Knowing the IMS transaction that is being requested would save time in problem determination. HWSD0252W UNABLE TO SEND RESPONSE FROM DS=IMS21 TO CLIENT=HWSOU0EB...
over 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Support assembler error feedback when using large assembler programs

Support assembler error feedback when using large assembler programsthat contain several macro expansions, which would cause the ADATA userexit to run out of Virtual Memory and produce an ABEND878-10."
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Optimize message notification and processing in an IMS frontend/backend situation

Current CQS message processing in an IMS frontend/backend situation should be looked at with regard to optimizing the XCF notification process and reducing the number of CF accesses.
over 11 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Cobol document generation

Currently, we have coding standards to ask the developer to write the enough comments in the program so that we can understand logic.In the Java world, there is a JavaDoc solution which have a set of rules and tools to generate the document for th...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Optimize (MVS) logging for non-recoverable transactions

Currently an IMS transaction can be defined as non-recoverable which might improve performance because of the reduction in logging done by IMS. However, in a shared queue environment a large part of the logging is done by the MVS logger which is n...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Increase the number of format-1 SYNCC globals

Our system now uses 254 SYNCC global fields. I believe the maximum is 255. Will you be able to support greater than 255 format-1 SYNCC globalfields and/or records? Format-2 global is avialble in z/TPF but Applications keeps asking for more format-...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Need to run CPIQ transaction alias via URIMAP TRANSACTION field

I need the capability to run the CPIQ transaction with a different transaction name pointing to the same program (DFHPIDSQ) via the TRANSACTION field of the URIMAP. I was able to accomplish this with an HTTP web service but I could not get this to...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Is a defect

Limit the number of items in a view

I am trying to use the MATCH command in the view creation to select the most recent entries, such as today's, hoping it will limit the amount of required storage. Is there an as yet undocumented "Depth" parameter to limit the view to a specific nu...
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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