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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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Fault Analyzer Last Screen Secuirty Restriction

We need to be able to restrict access to the 3270 buffer screen also refereed to as last screen. The clear text data witch we do not want all party that have access to the fault analyzer to have access to this screen. Ideally we want to be able to...
almost 6 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Rich UI Editor - Folding - option Collapse All is missing

RBD, Rich UI Editor, *.egl sourceRight click on left border in source editor tab (dark grey bar), Select option Folding, shows options [ExpandAll, Expand, Collapse] Please add option Collapse AllThis feature will add value for analysing/developing...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

Provide tiling options for the TOS gui, both at launch time and later.

Predecessor step: correct issue where the -sf option does not work with a locked gui. Otherwise tiling will provide little benefit. Provide the ability to tile host sessions within the gui in different ways: 1 Tiling example at gui startup: jcon.b...
almost 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 1 Delivered

Support new JCL from z/OS V2R1

JCL Editor breaks on z/OS V2R1 features like EXPORT SYMLIST Please see following JCL: //MKAIQM JOB 7904,KAISER,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=K,CLASS=A, // NOTIFY=&SYSUID,REGION=512M // EXPORT SYMLIST=(YEAR,USER,QMDIR,QMFILE,QMDSN) // SET YEAR='2015'...
almost 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

Better handling of 0 ODO structures

Complex structure with Occurs Depending On cannot be monitored in DebugTool if ODO-Variable has Value of zero. All variables (beginning with the one with zero length) in this structure gets "Incorrect value for ODO variable xx program-name:>var...
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

z/OS Explorer to support Smartcard for client certificates

z/OS Explorer does not support smartcards.
almost 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 4 Delivered

Easy SQL access to complex array structures in IMS databases

At the moment the IMS Universal JDBC Driver respectively the IMS DB Resource Adapters support only access to simple array structures based of fields in one datatype. Please enhance both the IMS Universal JDBC Driver and the IMS DB Resource Adapter...
almost 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 2 Delivered

DBB User build - provide a very simple workflow (no wizard)

DBB User build has quite a few fields that need to be populated on each program. But the values are mostly always the same in the context of the work of a developer. All of these values should have default values that can be set once, for example ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Delivered

Assembler LARL support

LARL modifies a register which would mean a change in program flow. AD currently does not recognize this syntax.
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

new LIMITS-STRING-Suboption 64K

the compiler option limits(string(64K)) should be also allowedVARYING strings could then still have a 2-byte prefix, but the compiler and library code would treat that length prefix as UNSIGNED FIXED BIN(16). in this case the compiler should use a...
almost 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Delivered

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