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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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EGL does not support recursion in records

Currently, EGL doesn't support records with recursive datatypes, meaning that records that look something like record rec1 r rec1[ ];end are not possible in EGL. Since I've come across quite a few web services written in Java that return an object...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

Identify unused variables at 01 level with no subordinates

In IDz if I right click in the source code of a Cobol program and choose Refactor/Identify Unused variables, it doesn't identify those that are not at an 01 level.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 6 Not under consideration

CICS TS - parameter SIT TCPIP (TCPIP = YES) with command online

Good afternoon, Please check the possibility of including the parameter SIT TCPIP (TCPIP = YES) via command online, in flight, without the necessary of stop/start of CICS that is currently needly.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Allow copy/paste from/into Java TextForm Field

After downsize from EGL genned COBOL/CICS and frontend TextForm 3270 to EGL genned Java/Windows and frontend TextForm 3270, the customer lost the copy / paste functionality to TextForm field.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Expand recordsize in File Control Program for VSAM

Currently you can't have a VSAM record bigger than 32767 bytes because the record size is in a half word in the File Control Program. Expanding the record will allow us to hold more data in a single record. It will allow you to use channel and con...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Java com.ibm.ims.connect.OutputMessage should contain LPAR (SMF ID ) and IMS ID that executed the transaction

z/OS Connect stakeholders need to know which system of record executed an API, in this case IMS transactions. The IMS service provider does not supply any information about the IMS that executed the transaction beyond IMS Connect.
over 1 year ago in IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

Extend RDz pushToClient-feature, add MVS-/JES-Filters, Edit MyJobsFilter

Currenty (RDz 9.5.1) contains a pre-defined JES-Filter (MyJobs) for Jobs where the user is the Job owner. In our Company not all Jobs initiated by the user are running with the user as Job owner. In such cases it would be a great help to maintain ...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

Support for CICS Transactions defined in CPSM

Application Discovery currently only supports definitions in CICS System Definition (CSD) either by connecting via zOS Mainframe Agent (specifying CICS Job and CSD file information) or by producing a CSD LIST format report on the mainframe, downlo...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CEMT TSModel SET command

Ability to do a CEMT SET TSModel to change the Expiry or Prefix.Also same in WUI and CICS Explorer. This would allow to do dynamic change, rather than CEDA ALTER and CEDA Install.
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Add a clause to limit Table SORT to first elements

The SORT instruction is used to sort a memory table, but the table may not have been fully populated and only the first elements of the table must be sorted. The SORT instruction should have a clause allowing to indicate which elements are to be s...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration