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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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When importing a WSDL interface, set string maxlen from XSD settings

When importing a WSDL as EGL interface, set the maxLen property of string attributes according to the value in the XSD type, if available. Combined with RFE 39245, this removes manual actions to set the maximum length of string input elements when...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered

RPP : Pas de tri possible des resultats d'etude d'impacts par type d'entites

Dans la vue r?sultats des Super-r?f?rences sur une entit?, nous avons la possiblit? de trier par component, par nom mais pas par type d'entit?s. Or, dans le cas d'?tudes d'impacts, cela peut complexifier l'exploitation des r?sultats. En outre, il ...
about 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Delivered

IDITRACE to be set globally

Specifying IDITRACE DD DUMMY in a JCL is a great option to trace Fault Analyzer behavior. Unfortunately it can not be set as a global option for FA but must be specified in selected jobs. For complex installations or production systems a global ID...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Improve performance of "Show in Table" view

When using "Show in Table" view to display z/OS artifacts (i.e. PDS members, dataset filters, job filters, etc), the rendering of data within SWT widgets performs sluggishly. The performance issue can also be noticed when scrolling between several...
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Delivered

Throttle for CSOL if CICS is not responding

We had a couple of sev 1 issues recently after an overall system lockup froze everything for a few minutes. Because of the high volume of HTTP messages we process, all of our high volume TOR (WOR) regions went SOS immediately after the systems fre...
about 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Activation of the Content Assist function in the remote C++ toolkit editor

The Content assist functionality is disabled in TPF_Toolkit preferences. Is there a way to enable it ?
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Delivered

EPLI V4.3 - Suboption ALL/SOURCE for RULES(NOLAXNESTED)

Request is an implementation of suboption ALL/SOURCE for RULES(NOLAXNESTED)
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

EPLI V4.3 - Suboption ALL/SOURCE for RULES(NOPADDING)

Request is an implementation of suboption ALL/SOURCE for RULES(NOPADDING)
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

EPLI V4.3 - procedure with return-value not set

Good afternoon Helmut. I received a reply from Peter. Under the RULES(NOLAXRETURN) option, the compiler will generate code to raise an ERROR condition if a RETURN; ( or RETURNS(...); ) statement is executed when the procedure was entered at an ent...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Delivered

RUI designer: additional replacement variables for digits and string length

I need replacement variables to use in the VE data templates that would give me the number of digits and decimals for number fields and max length for string fields. That information would come from the actual fields of the record being dragged on...
about 11 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Delivered