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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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Option to generate ALTER DDL and save them in z/OS PDS member

Hi, I have imported a database from IMS Catalog to my local project in IMS Explorer. I have made some changes to it. To generate the ALTER DDL statements, I have to use "Submit changes to IMS" to generate ALTER DDL statements for the changes I hav...
almost 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Edit segment attributes to change from fixed to variable length in IMS Explorer projects

I have imported a DEDB with fixed length segment in to my local project in IMS Explorer. I don't see a provision in "edit segment attributes" to make the fixed length segment to variable length.
almost 3 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Include JCL EXPORT statement in AD

This request is regarding this AD issue: Error [1043] : Syntax Error: 'EXPORT' AD currently does not support JCL EXPORT statement and it would help us a lot if this statement can be added to JCL parsers.
almost 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

zUnit Assertion to include also less than, greater than

It would be better if the Assertion logic also include the Greater than (>) and Less than (<) comparison.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Reset Insert Mode when AID Sent to Host

Reset Insert Mode when AID Sent to Host. Insert remains active in RDz Host Connection Emulator and is reset when the reset command is sent. Utilizing this functionality will reset the insert mode when AID is sent to host. Continuing as is, this ca...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

URIMAP and restfull api

When running RESTFUL API it will be nice if it is possible to run different tran names for the same URI based on the method GET/POST and so onso some users are only able to see datat but not update them we are using liberty in CICS
almost 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Printing capabilities in EGL

As a programming language, It needs to have printing capabilities to send files directly to the printer (Server side & Client side(RUI)) with some printing features, e.g: -Silent mode, in case of printing server side-prompt & don't prompt ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

Fixed DSN for containers

We would like to have, in option, a fixed dsn for containers in HDB
over 11 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Provide capability to recover JES2 buffers other than TGS (SPOOL)

Provide flexible code to support monitoring and recovery of JES2 buffers similar to TGS (SPOOL).
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Future consideration

Read/Write to a HFS (or zFS) file from CICS in a API

To natively read and write to a USS member in a HFS or ZFS file in CICS using a EXEC CICS API. These files should be dynamically allocated when invoked. This would allow a programmer to read a HTML, CSS or JavaScript file (or any other type of fil...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration