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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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Associate Property Group in RDz does not permit multiple selections even though Check Boxes are used.

In the "Associate Property Group" window, the list of possible Property Groups are listed with Check Boxes. However, only a single Property Group may be selected.Seems to me that Radio Buttons should be used instead of Check Boxes as Radio Buttons...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

DebugTool should debug programs in CICSKEY and OPENAPI with TRANISO.

Debugtool loops with 'EQA9999W requested data set unavailable, looping 'if a CICS-COBOL program defined as OPENAPI and CICSKEY is being debugged in a CICS with TRANISO=YES. It turned out that COBOL Side file utility routine for CICS, IGZISFU issue...
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RDz to support a property group configuration wizard

It is always a roadblock for users to adopt RDz due to property group setup. Without proper setup, user will missed out lot of good features such as syntax check, generate JCL, show dependency, etc. The current way to setup property group still re...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Introduce autonomic capability for CICSPlex SM to not terminate the MAS agent when it encounters a CICS short-on-storage

CICSPlex SM MAS agent communications task COI0 was recomposing a MAL and method CTER invoked method XSCG to obtain CICS storage. The storage request returned due to CICS being SOS above 16M and method CTER returned to its caller (method CTES) with...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

BATCHREP should support the creation and modification of CPSM Parameters.

SYSLINK MODEL to be specified as a CPSM BATCHREP attribute and MODEL SYSTEM NAME to be displayable in EYUSTARTCSYSDEF.DETAILED view or retrieved with the CPSM API : All the CSYSDEF parameters can be specified as an input to CPSM BATCHREP CREATE CS...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add CPSM options display via transaction and/or via messages at CMAS/WUI/LMAS startup.

CPSM has a whole book of options for every sort of address space it controls: CMAS, MAS, WUI. We need the ability to see at a glance, either via a terminal transaction or via messages displayed in a log at address space startup, a summary of ALL a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 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...
over 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 ...
over 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 ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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