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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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ZOWE RSE CLI should implement the local encoding option

Zowe CLI does have an option for local encoding, while RSE CLI isn't yet adopting it. I think it will be usefull to avoid the pre-encoding before uploading Cobol sources from a host to the Mainframe.
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Delivered

Passphrase support for Rational Business Developer

Passphrase to generate the EGL source to COBOL is not supported using RBD 9.6
over 3 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 3 Delivered

Fault Analyser : Retrieve Cobol Special Register values in Dump

It would be very useful to have the Cobol Register value included in the Fault Analyzer Dump.In a Cobol Dump, when value contained in Cobol Special Register are involved in the cause of the abend, there's currently no way to find them in the Fault...
over 4 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

CICS Preprocessor LIB option

The CICS preprocessor creates required COBOL Compiler Options including the LIB command. The LIB option is no longer supported with COBOL 5 and 6. Please create a CICS('cobol5') option which can be included in COBOL Compiler Option directives to m...
about 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Delivered

ADDI-Support for current version of COBOL

In order to avoid breaking the ADDI build process the COBOL scanner has to support the syntax of the current version of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Delivered

Add new warning message for misuse of a literal as output argument

We would like to get warning messages issued, when a literal is passed as argument, which was explicitly declared as inOut or outOnly. The compiler handles this correct, but of course, the output value is lost. From our point of view, such code is...
10 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Delivered

Support of PhoneGap / Apache Cordova

With the Mobile preview: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en_US#/wiki/W75c8733d99bb_4d55_9ee8_4dbc8c56ebee/page/EGL%20Mobile%20Web%20Preview you can create Mobile Websites. But when you want to make use of hardwa...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

IQIBUTIL add a FINDTEXT option to copy the selected members as can be done via ISPF

Via ISPF FINDTEXT one can copy the selected members to another file for further processing, but using IQIBUTIL in scheduled batch jobs this is not possible.
5 months ago in IBM Data Set Commander 3 Delivered

Provide an Outline view for JES output, similar to the Outline view for a COBOL program.

Similar to the Outline view of a COBOL program, add an Outline view of a JES output (entire job) that provides the ability to jump to the ‘next' or ‘previous' JES file or any other JES file within that job. This would be similar to the Prev/Next c...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Other 4 Delivered

LIST Option causes issues with messages from COBOL 5.2 compiler

When compile parm LIST is used with the parm FLAG(I,I), compiler diagnostic messages that are supposed to be printed at the end of the source listing (page 327 Programming Guide SC14-7382-03) are in fact printing in the middle of the output ahead ...
almost 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Delivered

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