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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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Item Name/Comment/Annotation in Resource Selection List

Provide the option to show a speaking name / description / Annotation per item (program/JCL/proc) already in Resource list view together with the item name.E.g.Column1 - Column2JOB1ABCD - "Start Chain of Processing"PGM1XXX - "Finalize Process Hand...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

CICS Explorer - Perspective Import/Export

Ability to Import/Export Individual CICS Explorer (installation defined) Perspectives
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Asktime should set a properly formatted COMP-3 in EIBTIME

CICS manual states that ASKTIME function cannot be used with NUMPROC(PFD) compiler option.This is because ASKTIME sets a F as final byte in signed EIBTIME, instead of a correct C. PMR and RFE to the CICS team, to get a fix for this are rejected, a...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 6 Not under consideration

Timeout parm neeeded on WEB CONVERSE

Need a TIMEOUT interval parameter on the WEB CONVERSE (or WEB RECEIVE) command so that:- interval doesn't have to be set in the transaction definition (via profile) for EVERY transaction in the application that may issue WEB CONVERSE;- interval ca...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Filter Pool - Rename function for "technical/special" filters

Hi, the IDz automatically generates "special filters" in the filter pool view with a technical name: CN-Connection-Name-xxxx (See attachment). Which says nothing and does not look pretty. Since I can't delete them (they are automatically generated...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Not under consideration

READQ TS with CicsExplorer

Today when right-clicking a TS-Queue in CicsExplorer I can select the actions 'Open', 'Delete' or 'Copy'. I would be very useful if there were an action 'Readq' (like CECI READQ), to show the content of a TS-Queue item.
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Use same password for several z/OS systems in view "Remote System"

Use same password for several z/OS systems in view "Remote System".
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Host 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ - Using a "DEFINEd" compilation-variable in source code of a program

Using a "DEFINEd" compilation-variable in the source code of a Cobol program could be interesting: CBL DEFINE (COUNT = 100)>> DEFINE COUNT AS PARAMETER...01 ARRAY. 05 ITEM OCCURS COUNT.... Today, this result can be achieved by a REPLACE dire...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 7 Not under consideration

More general error message in case of lock at opening

We often have lock problems when opening programs. Under TSO, the user knows that this is an RDz server by typing F1 after his attempt to open : we don't even have this information under RDz. We have this type of message : « CRRZI0643W The file &l...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Add Maintenance Level on the WTO

Could yo add the maintenance level to the to the WTO on the release level. As follows: IMS SYSTEM PARAMETERS ACTIVE FOR THIS V14.1 RSUxxxx (RSU2010) .
almost 5 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration