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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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Alert Invalid Password

When we generated a EGL program we need a tcp/ip connection with hostname, port number, userid and password. These information are saved in the EGL Build Descriptor options or to userid/password in the EGL Preferences. When we talk about hostname ...
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Delivered

VSAM error code (subcode2) not accessible from PL/I

When an error occurs during VSAM file processing (such as concurrent access), the VSAM subcode2 is containing valuable information to identify the cause of error. To my knowledge, this error code is not accessible from PL/I. Could we have ONSUBCOD...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Need more control on where a program is polling for ATTENTION interrupt

When %PROCESS INTERRUPT is specified, the compiler is automatically generating ATTENTION interrupt polling at labels, loops iterations, end of blocks, ... Polling for ATTENTION interrupt is done by calling IBMQEATN L r15,=V(IBMQEATN)(,r3,4) BASR r...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Delivered

Mécanisme d'insertion de ligne MSP dans du code spécifique

Pouvoir inserer du code de MSP dans du code sp?cifique ? la mode PACBASE
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Disposer d'un content assist pour acceder aux micropatterns RPP

Facilit? d'acces
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Outillage de refactoring sur case Of vers la boucle loop

Avoir un outillage de refactoring pour ?viter de maintenir des boucles "deprecated" (Case Of)
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Delivered

Synchorinisation Editeur CObol PDP avec la vue code structurée

La vue Code structure est synchronis? ? le souce cobol PDP. Faire la meme chose dans l'autre sens
over 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

Set EIBERR if terminal is no longer usable

If a CICS terminal suffers a TERMERR condition and/orsuffers a Terminal Control abend, the manuals say thatthe task must no longer issue TC commands.But there's no mechanism for an application to determinethat the task is in that situation (other ...
over 9 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Delivered

RDZ v9 JCL notify and locate should be combined.

RDz v9.1.1 has JCL notification feature, but it can only selected from "Notify" or "Locate". It should be able to allow users to have both "Notify" and "Locate" features.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Delivered

TARH HSM Conversion assist enhancements

Testing HSM Conversion Assist in TARH 2.5.Doing deep testing in tool HSM conversion assist to move files from DMS (oem data manager) to HSM, we found one issue that can be solved easily but can enhance the product in a strong way.We suggest the po...