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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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Enhance the 'DISPLAY OWNER' command to show all locks for a PDS[E]

In an Explorer for z/OS client using the 'show in table' option for a PDS and looking at the Lock owner column can tell you who is locking which members. When you open a dataset in Explorer for z/OS it is actually the RSED daemon which takes the l...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 3 Delivered

Printig on printer sessions does not work (windows USB printers)

We can't send reports to printers connected to Windows computers through the USB port.
about 8 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Delivered

EGL Archive (EGLAR) file for dependent projects

We are developing a large-size web application (1600+ screens and 1600 tables) using EGL and RBDe. Due to layered nature of the application architecture and screen-specific requirements, the number of files in project is further multiplied. Effect...
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Delivered

z/OS Connect and APIs: Provide support for z/TPF services

z/OS Connect and APIs: Provide support for z/TPF services Enable z/TPF as a service provider for z/OS Connect and APIs. Provide support for z/TPF in z/OS Connect, so z/TPF services can be invoked as APIs, with all the benefits of the APIs (catalog...
about 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 2 Delivered

horizontal and vertical span support in BSGridlayout

In EGL rich UI you can use the Gridlayout widget for creating tables. For complex layouts you can change the horizontal and/or vertical span. In RBD 9.6 the Bootstrap widget set was added. Most of the "old" Rich UI widgets can simply be replaced b...
about 4 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Delivered

RACF GROUPID in EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD

We would like that EXEC CICS VERIFY PASSWORD has the capability to specify GROUPID so that passtickets composed with CICS APPLID and RACF GROUPID can be supported without the need for an artificial terminal task to perform a SIGNON..
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

full support on pli programms for extensions other than .pli

We have a lot of pli source programms with different extensions. Only a few are .pli. Most are plid, plim and plib, showing the purpose of the programm (dialog, module and batch). Would be very helpful to have the full ability for pli sources in t...
over 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Delivered

Git support in AD

RFE opened on behalf of BNPP BNPP would like to load all the necessary software artifacts from Git (source code, configuration files) instead of loading them from z/OS (Endevor, subsystems definitions, etc...). As Git is going to be main referenti...

Dashboard showing trends/drifts created by applications maintenance

RFE opened on behalf on BNPP BNPP would like to dispose of a feature to evaluate the differences of CPU consumption between two versions of a program or an application, to be able to take additionnal decisions during a DevOps cycle (optimization o...

HACP EE Japanese support for host code page

I want to abolish java in order to deal with the security problem of java in the HACP configuration. I want to solve it using HACP EE, but I can't install or solve it because the host code page of HACP EE does not support Japanese. Please support ...
about 4 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Delivered