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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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Built-in Support for PDS Processing

Currently, in order to read all members of a PDS it's necessary to first read the directory and create an array of member names, then either use an Assembler program to read each member or from PL/I dynamically allocate each fully qualified member...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Delivered

HACPEE to permit 3rd party PDF generator

This is a variant of RFE 149183:https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=149183 We think the functionality requested on this new RFE is better than the one we requested in 149183. HACPEE 2.0 includes Printing Suppo...
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Delivered

New compile option INFOFS/NOINFOFS for Enterprise Cobol V5

Enterprise Cobol V5 changed the handling with the information-level file status.Version 5 restores the COBOL 85 conforming behavior: A successful read of a file might return file status 04 instead of 00, if the minimum and maximum record sizes do...
about 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Delivered

Inefficient store/load of immediate before inline __asm

Inefficient store/load of immediate before inline __asm Optimization concern after function inlining of function with inline ASM. The 'abend(1000)' call in mainz() looks good: LGHI 1,1000 000003 ABEND (1) +000005 But the 'abend(500)' call that get...
over 7 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 3 Delivered

HOD support for Java v11 needed

Currently HOD session sets will not use Java v11. The problem is that Java 1.8.0_291 is at end of support 3/2022 and Citibank is in the process of rolling out Java 11.
over 3 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Delivered

Symbolic in JCL doesn't work with "open member" option

While editing or browsing a JCL in RDz, you can select a dataset name in the JCL and from the context menu select the option "Open Member". This will open the dataset in RDz. If the dataset name has symbolic parameters in it, the open member produ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

IDz: Add Requeue Action to the JES System

In JES we can requeue a job but this option doesn't exist in IDz.
over 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Delivered

Provide meaningful ways of verifying right data files loaded to online

We load data files to the system thru E-type load or Image load (TLD). However there is no way to know that we loaded right ones to the system. We do have multiple revisions of the same file at CVS (source library). When Applications submit an onl...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

NULLINIT/REINIT for defined structs

i really appreciate the new NULLINIT & REINIT and would even more appreciate if those are also available for defined struct.
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

New built-in function to retrieve defined groups of a REGEX

For the lately introduces regex functionality in PL1, it would be very useful to have (according to C's regexec) a new built-in for retrieving parts (content of capturing groups) directly.Furthermore, adding flags for the regex definition e.g case...
over 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered