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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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Enterprise Cobol - Source text replacement in string

The REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives allow replacements to be made in the source text, but these replacements only apply to COBOL words. Unless we are mistaken, it is not possible to carry out replacements in string type literals. We suggest ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - String operators for >>DEFINE directive

The >>DEFINE directive should allow manipulation of strings:* concatenation of strings: use of the "&" operator* substring extraction: use of reference modifications* reference to a compilation variable, possibly with automatic casting
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>PUNCH directive to include text in source

We would like to have a directive allowing to introduce calculated lines of text (not predefined in a COPYBOOK) in the source code at compile time. We suggest the provision of a >> PUNCH directive. Syntax: >>PUNCH [AT column] text-expr...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - >>PERFORM VARYING for loop

We propose the implementation of a compilation directive allowing to do iterations. These iterations could involve the manipulation of compilation variables and source text which would then be replicated on each iteration of the loop.Corrollary: y...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Dynamic compilation variable

Compiler directives, and in particular the >>DEFINE directive, are not handled by the REPLACE and COPY REPLACING directives. This therefore prohibits managing compilation variables dynamically, for example by declaring in a COPYBOOK a compil...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Support the use of user and schema owner separation

Help us to DB_SCHEMA_OWNER parameter dont be ignored by SFG in order it can start to use schema owner specified?
about 4 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[RPP] Equivalent choix LFE : Liste des rubriques non définies au dictionnaire

Il n'existe pas dans RPP de moyen de retrouver les rubriques utilisées dans les programmes, sans fiche de définition dans le dictionnaire (équivalent choix LFE dans PACBASE)
about 4 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Batch Software Analyzer for PL/I always gives 0 results where as RDz software analyzer gives results on the same

Hi,We are in the process of implementing Batch software analyzer for COBOL and PL/I developers when they want to check the health checks of their code.We got the RDz in host upgraded to V9.5.0 and tried running the batch software analyzer on the s...
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Batch tooling for working with CICS resource definitions stored as zFS bundles.

A batch utility capable of working with resources definitions stored as bundles in zFS and providing functions similar to those provided by DFHCSDUP for CSD is needed.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

CICS should provide a utility to aid in migrating resource definitions between different repository types, i.e. CSD/BAS/zFS

Please provide tooling to facilitate migrating resource definitions back and forth between all of the various repositories: currently CSD/BAS/zFS bundles.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration