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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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Warnings founded when building the project COB (Case 3)

The new feature will avoid to think that the COBOL analyzer is not following the new rules of COBOL authorized by the compilers.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

AD to support CA Ideal programming language

Need CA Ideal analysis/understanding capability for Central Bank of Kuwait.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add the support for zEventPump to gather the envet of control-M

TBSM 3.1 has Control-M feed,which CCB customer is using. CCB now plan to upgrade from TBSM 3.1 to TBSM 6.1. However, as the system z agent of TBSM 6.1, event pump 4.2.2 doesn't support Control-M data collection. It's a function gap that customer c...
over 12 years ago in Tivoli Event Pump for z/OS  1 Planned for future release

Create a CICS CBL statement to indicate a COBOL program is threadsafe

Create a CBL statement that can be included in the COBOL source program that indicates the program is threadsafe. At compile/linked time the compiler/linkeditor should detect this CBL statement and indicate that the load module is threadsafe. If r...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

WAET1111-1460 CICS Ability to dynamically scale

SUBMITTER SECTIONSubmitted by: Bill.MitlehnerSubmitters Company: Aetna PUBLICRequirement Number and Title: WAET1111-1460 CICS Ability to dynamically scaleHomework Assigned: NoRequirement Category: WebSphereCurrent Status: RecognizedClosed Status: ...
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Add Trace Entries to the callable interface routine DFHNCTR

Reason: A use has a batch exit program that uses DFHNCTR for a named counter server function. This exit has worked fine under 3.2 for years. Now when moving to 4.2 the first calls get "Server not found RC 304". After re-cycling the batch job it wo...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cics dosn't provide chronological serialization sysplex wide

Cics cannot guarantee chronological ENQ acquisition sysplex wide ENQs, so there isn't any way to serialize in chronological ENQs order sysplex wide .
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Support for Chunked Transfer Encoding for Web Services Responses.

For HTTP 1.1 clients CICS as a service provider should honor the chunked transfer encoding HTTP header when sending the response. For many clients accepting chunked transfers is optimal rather than handling a response sent with a content-length.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

CICS ECI Transactions Delayed by RACF exclusive ENQ.

In a 24/7 Electronic Funds processing environment, CICS transaction processing should not be delayed when the RACF database is being backed up (IRRUT200).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Update IBM z/OS CICS related product message manuals to include WTO route and descriptor code information.

In order to provide proactive incident notifications, enable automatic ticket creation and ensure either a human or automated operator is aware of "actionable" z/OS CICS related product events, we need to ensure that all product provided actionabl...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration