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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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Dynamically increase the queue block, long and short message queue datasets

There should be a possibillity to switch the queue block, long and short message queue datasets to a bigger pre allocated DS without shutting down IMS.I could imagine to issue the switch via command similar to the 'SWITCH xxx' command. The command...
about 7 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

Update processing of inbound LU 6.2 connection to region to detect connection already defined.

If a CICS region not using VTAM Generic Resource initiates an LU6.2 connection to another CICS region that has a corresponding connection defined the two regions connect without issue. However, if a region using VTAM Generic Resource initiates a c...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

VSAM cluster sharing within a HAO component

The VSAM cluster - especially the TDB and the NAM clusters - need a functionality to be shared between the STC. Nowadays the VSAM clusters have to be synchronized manually or by the HAO component. When there are a lot of instances in a Generic Res...
over 8 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Provide ability to decrypt encrypted query/path parameters in a GET request

The API consumer need to pass a client card / credit card number to retrieve account information such as account balance or mortgage information with a GET method. Even though the request URL is protected in transport layer with TLS/SSL, the URL c...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

ADDI: Recognition of an IMS database call that takes place in a home-grown interface

1. Our dynamic resolution algorithm does not support Pointers, therefore calls like the one below are not resolved:CALL CBLTDLI-ProcPointer USING Dummy-P03Dummy-P04Dummy-P05Dummy-P062. Our dynamic resolution mechanism does not support SET ... TO E...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Create new web socket timeout attribute

Like to request a new web socket timeout attribute separate from the DTIMEOUT element. As described in a recent PMR from IBM the DTIMEOUT is designed to release dead locks from other resources. It spends a lot of time issuing automatic retries and...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

FA Eclipse: Show variable content in Cobol Source

I want to see the contents of working-storage/linkage variables in the opened Cobol source (e.g. with mouseover / hover-over) when using the Eclipse plugin for Fault Analyzer and open the programs source code
over 3 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" Show with SCHID =000

Requirement:Allow AD to show CA-7 Job Trigger Flows for SCHID=000 Issue:Currently AD does not allow this.A case was raised and closed with IBM L3 support responding with “By design, schedule 000 is not available for selection, as it is not a speci...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Schedule information missing for Time triggered jobs in "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow"

In "CA-7 Job Triggering Flow" chart, the time trigger schedule information for jobs in CA7. please provide this feature as time trigger schedule is a key capability widely used in batch schedule. There was a RFE 146935 raised earlier and there wer...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Job Log view is needed to handle very large job output

We have CICS region jobs running on different regions. When user wants to see the job log from RDz its throwing heap error. since the output size is more than 3 million lines. I want to act on my job out put rather than viewing 3million lines in o...
over 8 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

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