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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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Design and realize an algorithm and config-setting to reject huge SOAP requests/respectively huge PL/I response payload

SGW-enterprise, WSDL first approach: Design and realize an algorithm and configuration setting to reject huge SOAP requests/respectively huge PL/I response payloads and send back a SOAP Fault instead of processing the request/response.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

There is no CICS API/SPI or command to display the AID chain.

Provide a API/SPI similar to the INQUIRE TSQ and DELELTEQ TS for AIDs. The INQUIRE function should return the Trans, Term, Term Status, Owning System, AID Type, Request ID, AID address and Age of the AID. The DELETE or CANCEL function should allow...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 7 Not under consideration

PL/1 Pointer support creating CICS Business Events

The Customer has been running a PoC for creating CICS Business Events to be emitted to IBM Business Monitor. Unfortunately The customer are using pointers in their Commarea instead of data, so building the Events using CICS Explorer dows not work....
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 5 Not under consideration

Option to prevent DYNAMIC programs from running locally

Allow an option on a program definition to prevent a dynamically routed program from running locally if there is an error.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Provide a line action ADD command from the expanded group display panel to allow a user to add a group to a list.

The user has expanded all groups in a configuration and wants to have a line action ADD to add a selected group directly to an existing list in any configuration. The user also wants to be able to select multiple groups and issue an ADD primary co...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

show executing code in debug

System: Product RBD 8.5Actor: Program Developers Description: during debugging of EGL porgrams in the RBD Debug perspective, one cannot know what the program is doing in between map converses. It could be in DB2 CICS or program logic and the progr...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Support 88 Levels with the File Manager templates

When producing template support 88 Level values that appear in the COPYBOOK.
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

EQAXOPT TIMACB parameter cannot accept a system symbolic as a value

The EQAXOPT TIMACB,xxxxxxxx command used in building the EQAOPTS module needs to allow a system symbolic like the following: EQAXOPT TIMACB,&PLEXNAME However, this may be difficult to do. So any enhancement that would allow the symbolic is gre...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Remote text search in JES joblog

RDz is now lacking the capability of doing remote text search in JES joblog. It required users to open the joblog first. But that doesn't work if users want to do a text search on a large joblog (with million's of line)
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Add support in IMS IVP for gethostbyaddr

IMS IVP variable IXUTCPHN only allows gethostbyname. The ability to specify the IP address would be very helpful..
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

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