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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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Abends not reported in the CICSSTAT_TRAN_TRANS_ABENDS statistics counter

The statistics CICSSTAT_TASK_NUM_TRANS_ABENDED counter reports the number of ABENDs produced in the TRANCLASS. The value of the CICSSTAT_TRAN_TRANS_ABENDS counter is always equal to zero.
about 4 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add RULES(NOLAXFILEIO)

We want to avoid I/O-errors and -problems with the standard that user-defined files have to be explicitly opened before and closed after processing but not system-defined files: Therefore we would like to get a new RULES suboption such as [NO]LAXF...
about 8 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Data Flow / Data Flow Hierarchy View avoidance of suppressed assignments

Assignments that occur multiple times are suppressed in the views.Important information is simply suppressed. This only confuses and leads to wrong assumptions and errors. The problem occurs in both Dataflow and Dataflow Hierarchy views See use ca...
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 6 Future consideration

RDZ Copy-Paste incomplete

You have a dataset with X'00' somewhere inside. You press CTRL-A to select everything, CTRL-C to copy everything and in a new dataset CTRL-V to paste everything. But only the beginning of the dataset is pasted. The last byte is the character just ...
about 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Need a Symparm to reduce default (10x) initialization of Dynamic Array

When EGL is generated to COBOL a definition of Dynamic Array gets initialized by default 10 times. We would like to have a Symbolic Parameter (BuildDescriptor) to reduce this default initialization to less (ex. 1 time) to reduce memory consumption.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Memory de-allocation of Library Function variables before leaving the function

We would like to see the automatic de-allocate of the local Library Function Variables before leaving the Function. This would reduce the memory consumption of the CICS Transaction.
about 12 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Planned for future release

Move I/O Data Buffers Above the Line

Alter the DCB for standard I/O, reading from SMF input files, to place I/O buffers above the line via the macro DCBE versus DCB. Currently, all buffers are taken from below the line, which is a limited resource.
about 12 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Passing the output parameters to invoke a service function

All the output parameters of an interface function have to be passed asdummy input parameters when invoking the service if the function has more than 1 output parameter. The function as of the interface looks likefunction testFn(inParm int in, out...
about 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

Save to Desktop from editor

It would be nice to have an entry at context menu to save the shown results (excluded, filtered, sorted, ...) to the desktop (DB2, Files, MQ, ...).
about 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

The shift code containing a 2-byte character string is not correctly recognized on IDz

When developing a program or JCL in the IDz environment, the shift code containing a 2-byte character string is not correctly recognized and processed.
about 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

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