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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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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

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

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

Support UTF-EBCDIC in the B2B Parser for JSON and SOAP

Recently UTF-EBCDIC was added functionality for the B2B Parser which has been very helpful. We recently determined that JSON and SOAP was not included in that support. We would like JSON and SOAP to be included in the support included under the B2...
over 8 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

RDz to ship a version of CDT matching its Eclipse base

RDz 9.5.1 comes with a preinstalled CDT version 8.1.100 while the CDT version for Eclipse Luna v4.4 is 8.6, see https://eclipse.org/cdt/downloads.php It will be better to ship the CDT version recommended on the CDT web site.
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Redevelop CICS Auxiliary Trace Utility to write to a Logstream and to trace tasks at a more granular level.

While running an auxiliary trace to capture data to assist Threadsafe analysis for a transaction that typically performs some 30000-40000 DB2 calls we saw very high levels of IO that appeared to elongate the response times of the transaction fifty...
over 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Make Available RDz ASTNode API outside of code review rules

When writing custom COBOL code review rules, the java class generated uses ASTNode API.This API enables to parse the COBOL program and identify each COBOL construct.Make this ASTNode API available outside of custom COBOL code rules to be readily a...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz Code Review Summary %

Custom cobol code review rules, can it produce a % (percentage) of how many anti patterns were found in the cobol code and based on % (say >70%), return different MVS return codes
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RDz COBOl/JCL Editor: Ability to use REXX like Macros

We come from a TSO/ISPF setup, where we over the years have developed a set of inhouse important macros, which either corrects issues or make changes to the whole program for given issues. We know that we can develop our own plugins, but it would ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

RDz Expanding Snippet functionality

Snippets in RDz offers you the ability to include code templates with or withour variable substitution.Many code snippets requires code inserted in other sections of COBOL or/and could benefit from inline programming logic to make the snippets mor...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration