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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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MQ Receive user exit

The customer typically uses the CDCSVRCHL SVRCONN channel to monitor system usage using the Tivoli CDC client but realize that any workstation with MQ client software installed can connect to CDCSVRCHL and MQGET/MQPUT to any queue.  Is t...
almost 12 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

Put the JVMServer into the CSD CICS BUNDLE definition

We would like the ability to specifiy the JVMServer in the CICS BUNDLE definition in the CSD rather then having it required in the CICS Bundle on the ZFS file system. This would be used if no JVM Server was specified in the osgibundle file that is...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

Reject huge Web Service requests/responses in ICON

This requirement has been submitted as MR1220125727. To prevent individual Web Service requests from blocking ICON instances they should be rejected by ICON. Instead, a SOAP Fault should be returned. This should be done for SOAP requests or PL/I r...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 2 Not under consideration

Modifications in ICON to exploit upcoming changes in PL/I memory layout and RDz

This requirement has been submitted as MR1220127810. RFE ID 29703 requests the PL/I compiler to handle varchar variables of complex structures in a way that allows the size of IMS Web Service requests and responses to be minimized. RFE ID 29705 re...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 0 Not under consideration

Parallel execution of converters

This requirement has been submitted as MR0516124555. Once large applications will go into production, Credit Suisse has a huge number of concurrent Web Service requests. It is expected that the system will not perform satisfactorily if the convert...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / System Management 3 Not under consideration

Return SOAP Header with trace information

This requirement has been submitted as MR1108126333. IMS region information as an exception trace is not available to the requestor in a Web Services environment. There should be the option to return this information to the caller through a SOAP h...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

Dedicated port for SOAP request and MU utilities

This requirement has been submitted as MR0517115255. Currently the SOAP Gateway receives SOAP requests over a certain port (in CS port 18000). The management utility Iogmgmt, the SOAP Gateway Administrative Console and also commands entered from t...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 1 Not under consideration

AXTL create DFHRS message

There is no indication of a connection error prior to transactions abending AXTL. ( no way to alert operations of problem or automatically recover from it. ) We rely on DFHRS21nn messages going through the message domain to automate recovery of LU...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Output Manager download function to create Excel tabs

When a client opts to download an indexed report or one which has multiple custom reports defined it would be very beneficial if the resulting download to Excel format would place the different indexes or custom reports into separate tabs of the s...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Change IMS DFSAAMPR IPCS log record extract function for unqualified dataset names on the entry panel

While testing the new DFSAAMPR (IPCS dump formatter function) for V11 I got a RACF error due trying to allocate an invalidly named dataset. The name being generated by DFSEGDSR/DFSEWDSN was fully qualified in even though I didn't enclose it in apo...
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 1 Not under consideration