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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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Toggle new Comment in JCL Editor

The function "Toggle Comment Continuation" (Ctrl+/)in the jcl editor inserts a character (*) on position 72 so that the comment can continue the next line (line beginning with // + one space) it works fine but it is not the recommended way for ins...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables

Please create API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables for following requirements. 1.Identify and extract the datasets accessed by the given job list / transaction list / webservice list /CICS main program list from cross dependency projects .2...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Highlighting the beginning and the end of an IF or PERFORM statement

With cobol editor, when i select a "IF", the "ELSE" and "END-IF" are highlighted.Same thing wirh "Perform End-Perform", Evaluate, End-Evaluate and all instructions vith scope terminator. With PDP Cobol Editor, it will be very useful to have this h...
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Is a defect

Support of SQL Merge statements in the make / build process

Complex merge statements in the SQL command are not yet supported in the make / build process.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

DWC Display of Script/JCL

But now, our users is pursuing the job log displayed from DWC to include the script/JCL of the job itself as in SCRPTLIB or script.sh in job output folder. Is it possible for you to: 1. Update the code of DWC to include the script.sh to the out.lo...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Copy an item from a component in different component of a different stream

Hellowe want to copy/duplicate an item from the component Y of stream A in the component Z of the stream B.It is not possible with the SDP. In the PMR 65559.660.706 we explain in details our needBest RegardsDelphine
over 8 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

capability in specifying IMS connection pool properties

In traditional WAS, we could specify IMS connection pool properties, such as Minimum connections, Aged timeout, etc. However, with IMS enterprise suite explorer, when we build a zConnect service, we could not specify min connection, max connection...
over 8 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Rexx for CICS should support the CPSM API

We would like to use the CPSM API under Rexx for CICS. It is already available using Rexx in batch and TSO but we want to use it in a CICS environment. Presently it does not appear to be supported.
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

HATS Web service support of row based data in Web services.

HATS provides data in a Web service from tabular screens in the following format:<column1> <value1> </value1> <value2> </value2> <value3> </value3></column1> <column2> <value1> </value...
over 8 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Not under consideration

Extending Java support on Linux on z (or other platforms)

Is there any plan in the roadmap to extend Java support on Linux on z (or other platforms)?
about 4 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration