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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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ISPF Interface - provide ascending and descending column sorting

Provide the ability to sort columns in descending sequence. For all CICS CM ISPF panels that lists data in columns, CICS CM should have the capability to sort each column either in ascending or descending sequence. Currently only ascending sorts a...
over 12 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

I would like CICS explorer CM plugin search results to be enanched to be modifiable

I like to use CICS explorer CM plugin especially to search for resources. I think the search result view should be enanched with 2 features:1) the chance to modify the search performed and run it again instead of start a new search from scratch ev...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Change CICS IA to show the command EXEC CICS START with USERID

we have a customer who wishes to detect EXEC CICS START with USERID.They want to use CICS IA tool to see it.Today CICS IA shows only the command EXEC CICS START TRANSID but it is not included the subparameters, in this case, USERID parameter.
over 12 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 4 Not under consideration

a request to get linked porgram name when static scan load module

customer wants to use IA to analysis the link(EXEC CICS LINK) between CICS programs. They want to use static scan to scan load modules to get this information. They know sometimes, the linked program name is decided at runtime. But some times, the...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Other 5 Not under consideration

A request for the ability to exclude Natural resources like CIUXPROG or CIUXTRAN.

The customer would like to have a way to Enable/ Activate, in a specific CICS region, an exclude list against Natural resources. For example to add an exclude program like CICS IA does for TS queues, programs, transactions, MQ queues, etc. Another...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

CICS VR should allow read-only jobs to coexist with Batch Backout

CICS VR Batch backout fails if another job is accessing the affected dataset is read-only mode.
almost 13 years ago in CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Batch-Interface for CICS VT Mapping Utility

CICS VT doesn't offer a batch interface to the Automated Mapping Facility. Such an interface would be quite handy to migrate lots of datasets (300+)
almost 13 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Allow for a one byte common transformation

Add a common transformation for 1-byte fields is from one set of characters to another so specific FBEs do not have to be created for each 1 byte field.
almost 13 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

EGL/RUI is consuming unnecessary memory from the browser. We need an automatic garbage collection process just like in Java..

To manage memory consumption in EGL/RichUI applications, you have to either reuse widgets or destroy widgets 'manually'. Reusing widgets makes software unnecessary complex postponing memory issues in larger apps. Manually destroying widgets is tim...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Missing datatypes

We would like to introduce the following datatypes in EGL. Problem 5 missing EGL types Overview We are missing for following COBOL types, corresponding EGL types. COBOL Types EGL typesPIC 9(3) National ?PIC S9(3)V9(2) National SIGN LEADING SEPARAT...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration