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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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RDz should facilitate easier export/import specific test data from DB2 databases.

Rational Developer for System z should facilitate to export specifictest data from source (dev/test) databases and import this data intotarget (test/dev) databases. Currently the database Export/Import functionality is aimed at savingand restoring...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

JSF message components & EGL sysLib.setError()

The JSF Tag Attributes include errorClass,errorStyle,fatalClass,fatalStyle,infoClass,infoStyle,warnClass,warnStyle that can be associated with h:messages. EGL write to FacesMessage using sysLib.setError(). This method should be enhance to provide ...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

RDz CARMA support long file name in Endevor

RDz does not yet have support for CA Endevor long names, it can now only support up to 10 characters. However Endevor allow long file name since v7 in 2005. All the existing long file name element in Endevor cannot be interface with CARMA now.
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

handle PL/I constructs/macros without preprocessing

This request is a follow up on PMR# 76639,010,678 Currently, the real-time syntax check gives errors for some specific PL/I constructs or macros. It can be solved by adding the MACRO option and by running the preprocessor through "Identified using...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Not under consideration

Running CPSM tasks on Open TCB to make sure user transactions can run normally when CPSM task is hang.

Customer encountered some problem while running a CPSM API batch program. During the batch program execution, CPSM tasks are activated on each MAS region to collect resources. Due to some reason, large page in/out happened to Data Space, which cau...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

ERE abend U2800 should not have to happen,

ERE fails with a 2800 when OLC was in progress when IMS abended and the OLCSTAT data set gets locks. If there are no active IMS systems the data set needs to be unlocked by a batch utility. This delays the ERE until this is done. We need an option...
about 11 years ago in IMS System Services / System Restart 1 Not under consideration

UOW LOCK MODE using has hash value

Now, UOW LOCK MODE user are using same hash value.As a result, False contention causes more than necessary, if multi processing are working on parallel.UOW Lock should use different hash value.This improvement will reduce false contention in case ...
about 11 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration

BMS Send Map and Receive Map support for CICS Java

BMS Send Map and Receive Map support for CICS Java
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Provide a interface for using debug as

Need a interface to call the debug as functionality in RBD in order that customer can use the debug as in their plug-in
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration

Provide icon hoverover feature to reduce learning curve times.

It would be great if there was the ability to see more information about what each and every icon represents when a mouse hoverover is performed. Being used to a greenscreen world all of my career, getting in and using RDz in Eclipse has been chal...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 2 Not under consideration

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