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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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LDAP active directory msft support on HOD

Actor : 600 users are potentially interested to ldap control for access to our I--series and mainframe environment Description: We are using Microsoft LDAP Autenthication feature as a standard for our environment and we need to introduce it also f...
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 7 Not under consideration

Support for facelets

Facelets are the official view technology for JSF 2.0. Facelets are already supported in the "sibling product" Rational Application Developer 8, but the newest JSF standard supported in Rational Business Developer is JSF 1.2.
over 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 2 Not under consideration

Job Flow Graph view display job's dataset member name.

Some JCLs hold multiple JOB cards.It is difficult to identify original member name in displayed view of Job Flow Graph now.Place member name on the header of view and output file of Job Flow Graph.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Display COBOL section information on Program Flow.

To have an ability see the structure of COBOL sections and paragraphs in Program Flow.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Show/Hide selected type of arrow links in Program Flow graphs.

In program flow graphs, it occasionally becomes too busy to understand the structure of the program.We need a function to select a certain type of link from "legends" view, so that users can follow the flow of the specified links.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Open API for ADI

Provide an open API to take in information from other products
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Not under consideration

Improvements to BTS debugging with LE Debug Tool User Exits - Debugging specific programs

I was setting up BTS IMS debugging for State of Tennessee. The Debug Tool Setup Utilities provides option 9, IMS BTS debugging, to enable debugging IMS Message processing programs in a BTS environment. However, the current configuration will debug...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

AD to supports standard Cobol Calls across application projects

Customer has a high number of cross-application source inter-dependencies. The product currently supports cross-application API calls via API Extensibility. Would like to request for the support of standard Cobol calls across application modules. ...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Cics Liberty shared library bundle support

To speed up starting times of the liberty server in cics it we have to host the included jar files in liberty applications only one time per server -> move them to shared liberty librarys. For this we need a function to deploy a cics bundle wit...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve the coverage of handling OOM errors to prevent Gateway daemon to be in an inconsistent state

If a Worker or ConnectionManager thread is active at the time the JVM throws an OutOfMemoryError, the thread terminates but other Gateway daemon threads fails to work and not processing requests. This behavior prevents failover from occurring as t...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

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