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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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ESSS maintenance implementation

Customers, running test and production systems upon the same LPAR which share a common ESSS address space, have the need for a plan or mechanism of applying maintenance to only test or production systems. With the current design, maintenance effec...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Finer granularity management of STALLXMGTSK to allow counting of different values for different TRANCLASS.

The current design of STALLXMGTSK is the minimum number of concurrent tasks required to enter the suspend class. It includes all the transactions in all the TRANCLASSes in the whole CICS region. Customer requires finer granularity management of th...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow inquiry commands to succeed even in MP CMAS is not available.

If the maintenance point CMAS is unavailable and you attempt to work with CICSPlex SM definitions via the API and the MP CMAS is not available, the API request will failwith a response of NOTAVAILABLE and a reason of MAINTPOINT.The commands found ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CPSM does not provide statistics on resource utilization.

CPSM does not provide statistics on resource utilization. In contrast, any CICS resource can be measured and reported on by way of CICS Statistics (Interval, End-Of-Day, etc) that are written to SMF 110 records. For serviceability, usability, and ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

EYU9WRAM - Remote Only Scope Vector

Provide a new WCOM API Function similar to WCOM_SM_SCOPE but only provide remote target regions in the SCOPE_VECTOR; where the resultant scope vector does not include the local region.
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Provide a parameter ' DPLRETRY =YES/NO' in EYUPARM

Provide a parameter ' DPLRETRY =YES/NO' in EYUPARM to make it possible to turn off DPL retry processing for when the DPL fails with 'NOTAUTH'. We want to eliminate DPL retry processing after getting not authorizederror. This is needed in order to ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

BAS target/related regions can not currently overlap

When deploying a dynamic resource with BAS, and specify both a Target Scope (for Remote installs) and a Related Scope (for local installs), CPSM does not allow any overlap, where the same CICS region is a member of the Target Scope and Related Sco...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Option to populate PA Group Definitions from CPSM groups

CICS PA should have a mechanism to obtain the region ids that are in CICSPlex groups and populate them into CICS PA's Group definitons (Option 1.3 or 6.2). Currently customers have to manually extract the regions ids from the CICSPlex groups and t...
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

DSC - display the from and to file DCB information as part of the output

On the DSC function :Display the from and to file DCB information as part of the output as well as number of records read and records written. this is a duplicate of 25722 which was submitted by another person in our shop ...
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow management of CTG as a CICSPlex SM Component

From this customer's point of view, it would be very useful if a CTG could be viewed as some kind of a special "CICSPlex component", so that it can be monitored (and maybe controlled) not only from a common user interface (which is offered by the ...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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