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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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CHANGEMAN BASELINE NEEDS TO SUPPORT DIVERSE FILE TYPES

Customer (Public Bank Berhad), running Application Discovery 5.1.0.5 has CHANGEMAN Baseline that contain various types of z/OS source files: Cobol, Assembler, etc. Currently, the build client cannot separate elements of Baseline into the Applicati...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Host code page cannot be set in CICS Explorer

Special german characters (ÄÖÜäöü) in fields of definitions, which are created with CEDA Define and a host emulation using geman host code page IBM-1141 were not correct displayed in CICS-Explorer, e.g. for "ä" a "{" is displayed.My request is to ...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Raise a severe error if an unknown instruction is generated

If the Compiler/Optimizer generates an invalid unknown instruction (UNKWN), it have to raise a Severe Error. The assembly list shows unknown ?UNKWN? instructions: 000027 | ALRK r8,r7,r9 000027 | UNKWN r15,r3 000027 | UNKWN r8,r6 000027 | C r0,s.uw...
over 8 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 7 Not under consideration

Cobol Collision during migration by delta

We have a program rejected during migration by delta and just before we have the message 'Cobol collision found' for --assignGenerationProjectsAndFolders
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

About order of file transter lists on Host On-Demand V11

Currently, order of the file transfer list is random.This customer uses many file transfer lists which include DBCS characters.Therefore it's very hard to find the required file from the lists.He strongly requested to improve the order of the file...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Option in IA to use applid or region id in Explorer integration queries.

In CICS IA the data is collected against the CICS APPLID and that is correct. Currently the integration from CICS Explorer to CICS IA uses the applid. It would be good if CICS IA could provide an option setting to use region name or applid in the ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

HOD getHTMLParameter using Java Web Start

We integrate HOD JAVA applet in our user portal and we send parameters using the URL and the getHTMLParameter macro function to send variable data such as user/password to the Host session. Now, browsers will run JAVA no more and we want to do the...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 2 Not under consideration

Export in Search View

In Remote Search View you can export the result to a file and there are columns showing information about found members.The same functionality would be nice for a loacal file search where the result view is very simpel. No columns and no export.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 5 Not under consideration

Column /Freeze in CICS Explorer

the ability to freeze a column (or columns) in the resource/region views of explorer. This would apply, minimally, base exporer, within the CICS SM perspective as well as to the CTG plugin.. Many resource displays have, pontentially many dozens of...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

z/OS Explorer needs an IM local download for installs

z/OS Explorer needs a downloadable IM install without having to install the package utility.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

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