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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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Support 88 Levels with the File Manager templates

When producing template support 88 Level values that appear in the COPYBOOK.
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

EQAXOPT TIMACB parameter cannot accept a system symbolic as a value

The EQAXOPT TIMACB,xxxxxxxx command used in building the EQAOPTS module needs to allow a system symbolic like the following: EQAXOPT TIMACB,&PLEXNAME However, this may be difficult to do. So any enhancement that would allow the symbolic is gre...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Remote text search in JES joblog

RDz is now lacking the capability of doing remote text search in JES joblog. It required users to open the joblog first. But that doesn't work if users want to do a text search on a large joblog (with million's of line)
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Add support in IMS IVP for gethostbyaddr

IMS IVP variable IXUTCPHN only allows gethostbyname. The ability to specify the IP address would be very helpful..
almost 12 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

RDz should support TSO prefixes

RDz Developer for System z should support the existence of TSO prefixes. The client (through RSE) should be able to detect the usage of a TSO prefix, determine what the prefix is, or give the option for the user to enter it into the client, and th...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

BUNDLE SCAN function(like PIPELINE SCAN) and Version management

We want BUNDLE can work as the PIPELINE, which is, the bundledir can contain several .zip files(each contains a single BUNDLE definition), and the install of the bundledir can pickup all the .zip files, just like the PIPELINE SCAN function. BOCOM ...
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Add date filter to job listing to alleviate response time issue

Please add the ability to filter JES jobs brought back to the RDz client screen by date. Preferably, the default settings can be managed by push-to-client, install options, or property groups.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

FA report of "Hexadecimal notation dump storage"

This customer , big steel company in Japan is using FA V9 in z/OS 1.10 And they encounter the problem when they see FA report of "Hexadecimal notation dump storage".The problem is that single-byte KATAKANA characters become garbage data and they c...
almost 12 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

cannot debug big program with IBM COBOL for AIX

For 32-bit applications, the debug format on AIX, stabstrings, uses a two byte field for storing line numbers. Therefore the line numbers that can be represented are 0 - 65535. Therefore source files with more than 65535 lines will cause difficult...
almost 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Browsing data in SNGL mode issue

Browsing data in SNGL mode issue -- It appears when browsing a file in SNGLE mode and you come across a record with no template, it keeps the previous template on the screen. Not sure if this behavior is expected, but it appears others have this i...
almost 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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