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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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Differentiate the GDPS operations for the Normal CFs and the Standby CFs that are normally deactivated

Differentiate the GDPS operations for the "Normal" CFs and the "Standby" CFs that are normally deactivated. The customers need that the GDPS in its Coupling Facility operations differentiates between the "Normal" Coupling Facilities and the "Stand...
almost 7 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

Support for EXTERNAL data

zUnit should support data items declared as EXTERNAL. If a data item in COBOL is declared as EXTERNAL it can be used to pass data from a calling program to a subprogram, and therefore should be recorded as if it is a parameter. Also when calling a...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

TM RA support for SEND_ONLY with ACK

In the SEND_ONLY scenario without ACK, IMS input messages are lost when the IMS transaction is stopped. There is no notification (SEND_ONLY without ACK). Unlike IMS Connect API, IMS TM Resource Adapter does not support the SEND_ONLY protocol with ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

SMF123 enhancement - error from server or HTTP response code mapping

Problem statement : Despite 'polite' requests to the contrary we have a few internal customers who employ HTTP status code's 500 in their HTTP status code mapping. In the event of transient issues in Open LIberty, it is not possible to establish w...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Add visibility when a panel has a syntax error

When a panel has a syntax error, in TLVLOG we see messages KLKDM1* on the first time the panel was called, but that can be hours after the STC started, so it goes undetected. Is there a way to make such errors more visible ? For example, if these ...
9 months ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

COBOL function hbound() for tables

COBOL has no easy way to check a table index or subscript against the OCCURS [... TO] {n} TIMES value. You can define an OCCURS constant to check against, but this requires application maintenance correctly preserve the correspondence when the tab...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

(TPFUG) Create new DFDL function to release memory when building or parsing while using DFDL APIs

Create function(s) to release memory following the invocation of DFDL APIs. This would alleviate memory leaks when calling the APIs multiple times.
9 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

IDz v16.0.2 File transfer CR/FL char is not showing while transfer file from Remote system to local

TS015047272: IDz v16.0.2 File transfer CR/FL char is not showing while transfer file from Remote system to local. File contains non-roundtrippable characters tried to transfer from remote system to local should transfer those char as well ex CR fL...
9 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

Store Copy Book Comments with IMS Catalog import

When importing PL/I structures, we need to be able to preserve the Comments. Ideally with the import process. The comments should be stored with the metadata in the IMS Catalog and recreated with a future DCLGEN utility for the IMS Catalog.
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Switching between transactions to debug is no longer possible in the new version of Debugger

A test user has registered many transactions, as sometimes one transaction is debugged and sometimes the other. In this case, however, only one transaction should be debugged. With the newly installed version of the debug tool (V16.02), it is now ...
5 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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