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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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CICSPlex SM WUI. Customer has requested a message error more precise/helpful.

Customer has a "CICS system definition" (screen1) that is defined as "Resource group scope name" of a "Resource description definition" (screen2). When she tried to remove the "CICS system definition", she received some error messages informing th...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICSPlex SM WUI. Detailed information about the cascade removal procedure during the "CICS system definition" deletion.

When a "CICS system definition" is removed, some of its related resources are also excluded. There is a message advising this procedure ("WARNING. For this definition type, removal will cascade through related associations"). Customer asked us the...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Admin Control over Shipped Perspectives

Currently CICS Explorer is shipped with a set of Baseline Perspectives (CICS SM (Default), Resource, z/OS, etc.). We would like our CICS Explorer Administrators to be able to control what baseline perspectives are included in the CICS Explorer ins...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

CICSPlex SM WUI. A WUI view to show the groups with no resources or components.

This request is a complement of the RFE ID 22583. Customer would like a view that show the groups with no resources or components, like resource groups without resource definitions or CICS system groups without CICS system definitions.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Support 'Set File Close Empty' of quiesced RLS files

This is requesting "SET FILE CLOSE EMPTY" support for quiesced RLS files. This is to facilitate the reuse of allocated space for VSAM RLS files without the need for duplicate FCT entries (RLS and non-RLS), and the manipulation of them. (i.e. close...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Be able to configure the precedence of a MRO (mainly) or ISC connection over an IPCONN with the same name

Customer has requested an option that allows to configure the precedence of a MRO (mainly) or ISC connection over an IPCONN with the same name.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CICS Event Processing Diagnostic Mode

This was MR0316112559 in the FITS system, Submitted 03/16/2011...... Bank of America would like the ability to trace or do some problem determination when they deploy an "Event" and it either fails to work or there is a problem with the deployment...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

BAS target/related regions can not currently overlap.

The customer would like to let BAS install more of their resource definitions. They have 250+ MASes servicing hundreds of applications.They already have a number of CICS System Groups defined.The problem they have is that when they attempt to inst...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

CPSM to display CICS completed task in user local time instead of GMT time.

Now CICSPLEX SM always showed CICS completed task stop time in GMT instead of user's local time in HISTORY VIEW. It caused inconvenience to user. I wish you would set up a new parameter in CPSM for users to choose GMT or local time for CICS comple...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

z/OS UNIX Files view should allow files to be edited by an Eclipse editor

Customer downloaded the CICS Explorer SDK, installed it in the Eclipse workbench, but I could not select the other Oxygen XML editor plug-in when opening the WSDL, XML Schema (XSD), or XML files in the Z/OS UNIX Files view.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Not under consideration

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