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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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INGOMX SOAP fault response

Normally, when a SOAP request is sent successfully to the SOAP server, the server responds with HTTP 200, and INGOMX writes the SOAP response to console. But in case of an error, especially HTTP 500 - Internal Error, INGOMX writes only the HTTP re...
about 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Super Session to pass CV64 when using virtual terminals

The source ip address does not reach CICS when using Super Session. When making a direct connection without SS or using the Pass function of SS the ip address reaches CICS. We attribute this difference to the use of virtual terminals in SS. Additi...
about 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

AA EGL RTL support children of a widget with RTL

This issue is kind of generic, It's regarding the RTL support, Unlike the HTML, the children of a widget with RTL orientation does NOT always inherit the orientation, most of it has its default LTR settings,that means, when we want to present a sc...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Request to include in the GDPS monitoring functions to verify the QHA for duplicated PATH-GROUP-IDs.

The Itau bank faced a situation related to the information showed by the command "DS QD,<dev>,QHA,1". They needed to init disk volumes, but few of them failed informing that were PATH-GROUP-IDs online, the interesting thing when they checked...
about 6 years ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Program code shall never be moved right of column 72

Program code shall never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines. If necessary, inserting shall be prevented.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Comments should never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines.

Comments should never be moved right of column 72 when inserting new text or whitespaces in existing lines. Lines should automatically be wrapped to new lines starting with an *.
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

IDz Cobol Editor Column 1 to 6

In the Cobol Editor we want to have a special handling for column 1 to 6. 1) Every keystroke in column 1 to 6 should trade as entered in overwrite mode when you have any none whitespace char in column 7 to 72. 2) STRG-V with a Content fitting in c...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Update CICS WS Security to allow stronger signatures

update CICS Transaction Server to allow stronger signatures
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Bundle-Deployment with CICS explorer

When developing Java applications for CICS, at the end a bundle must be exported to z/FS. The export will occur with mode fields 750, which means in most cases, that CICS is not allowed to read the bundle directory and its resources.It might be ve...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Automatic remote project file delete problem

I want to prevent automatic removal of files in a remote z/OS project. See also use case description. Why is it deleted from the project view without further question? Please turn off this behavior or add a confirmation prompt before deleting. Tha...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Future consideration