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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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IDz - File Truncation should honor PDS record length definition in RTC setup

In our IDz/RTC setup sources are stored in the RTC repository. Editing is done via the Project Explorer using the regular COBOL and JCL editors. We are using the zFolder structure to indicate that sources are stored in RTC, but at a certain point ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Delivered

Stop the duplication of job log data by Log Forwarder

With CDPz, each LPAR in a plex has its own instances of the product. When a plex has multiple LPARs, the Log data is typically shared and available to all LPARs in the plex. This means every LPAR reads and transmits the log data, therefore, the su...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Selective Export of CICS Explorer Connections

Currently CICS explorer allows the Export of all locally created and statically imported connections in just one single preference file. During Export the user should be able to select the connections to be exported.
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 6 Delivered

Copy Replacing : Automatic changes for existing copy

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almost 8 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Need easier way to select several lines in -GC descriptions

The selection of multiple lines in -GC is not easy. It requires to shift+click on the very far right of the line (last column), which is not something users can easily realise by themselves. Other locations of the Shift+click are not taken into ac...
almost 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

RDz to support host emulator using wide screen size 62x160

We have users need to run host emulator in wide screen size 62x160, while now can only support up to 27 x 132. PCOMM v5.9 can support 62 x160, so we will need RDz host emulator can also support that size, such that it won't make it a roadblock for...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Detecting unusable OSAs

he z/TPF OSA-Express support has a concept of virtual IP addresses which allows you to swing IP addresses from one physical OSA card to another.      To communicate externally, OSA's have defined to them first hop gateway IP address...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Delivered

Increase maximum length of "otheropts" in Debug Profile Service API

We are trying to use Debug Profile Service API to automate the DTCN profile creation, but found the maximum length of "otheropts" is only 80 characters. This is not enough as we have a number of environment variables required to input for code cov...
almost 4 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Suppress the "Migrate DTSP Profiles" dialogue

It would be nice and helpful, when we can set a preference to suppress "Migrate DTSP Profiles" dialogue.This preferences should be accessible from outside, so we can set it during the creation of workspace. The user must not decide, if the technic...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Delivered

User should be given the ability to suppress RDz Push to Client configuration notifications

A preference has been provided under Remote Systems > Configuration Files > ?Do not notify me of updates?. However that does not work as expected. Once Configuration group selection is made if the preference ?Do not notify me of updates? is ...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Delivered

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