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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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Compiledate and Compiletime of loads

It should be nice to get the list of compile date and compiletime and version of compiler of all csects in a loadmodule. This should be implemented for the languages cobol, PL/1, LE-enabled ASM, C/C++, FORTRAN for online and batch component.- all ...
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

(TPFUG/Visa) - Provide a way to clear the keypoint staging area for a TLD install

If a TLD is installed that does not include any keypoints then the target image keypoint staging area is untouched. While this can be useful in some cases, it can also lead to unfortunate consequences if a "standard" TLD procedure is adopted to 1)...
over 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Allow Show dependencies without JCL submit

This issue has been discussed on PMR# 08724,379,000. Problem is that if RDz procedure ELAXFCOC is not used for compilation and therefore not configured then Show dependencies will also not work because it needs to submit a Job using ELAXFCOC. It w...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 5 Not under consideration

ADDI - JDBC Driver

Product requires DB2 Connect instead of using JDBC driver.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

ADDI - DDL for install/customization

The ADDI product internally generates and executes the DDL required for product installation. It is our requirement that we customize and install any and all DDL for all vendor products.
about 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

WINDOW 100 lines long

We now have very large screens, so I am running with a 3270 screen 100x127. This is giving WINDOW a problem, especially when scrolling.I've done some testing and found the issue is due to the CNMKWIND panel definition only having 76 data lines. I ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

Add support for using HTTP-Headers in WS Pipeline

Currently we do not have an official way to specify a http-Header in an outbound web service. The way to specify this as an extension to the soapaction-header is no official way.Please provide an API
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

optimize content assist for big Cobol modules

Under some conditions, content assist can completely freeze the UI, interrupting flow of work. This should not happen: either the completion should return results quickly (under a few seconds) or it should stop blocking after a configurable timeou...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Future consideration

Add more options to Attribute characterWhiteSpace

Currently, the build toolkit properties file attribute characterWhiteSpace=COLLAPSE removes all leading, trailing, and embedded white space from type string fields. Furthermore, the same option replaces with single space characters all tabs, new l...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+ - Improve documentation of the DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD / DAY-TO-YYYYMMDD intrinsic functions

Hi, The samples given in the documentation of the intrinsic function DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD all correspond to the same use case: the year of argument-1 is greater than or equal to the start year, (without a century), of the interval, therefore it is the...
8 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

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