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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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Certain values to be forbidden to set in determined fields in DTCN

When the debugger users invoke DTCN they supply determined values in the fields. IBM Debug tool allow us to force to place values in determined fields with the EQAOPTS, but the customer would like a plus for forcing so that some values cannot be i...
almost 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Flag SS instructions with a (probable) incorrect use of implied operand length

Please consider the following two MVC instructions, both of which use the implied length of the first operand: MVC FULL1,FULL2 perfectly reasonable MVC FULL1+2,HALF explicit length of 2 is obviously missing…FULL1 DS FFULL2 DS FHALF DS H* LTORG The...
almost 10 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

Notify user when large files are corrupted by RSE

On occasion, RSE may corrupt or partially write out large files. Could RSE be enhanced such that, after a file transfer is complete, it performs a checksum on both sides, compares the result, and if corruption is detected, notify the user.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Wizard to import RSE connection definitions, Debug profiles, projects, etc from an old workspace directory.

A lot of user set up is contained in a workspace, it is desirable to be able to import configurations from old workspaces.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

cross analysis on java projects from analyze client (AD Projects)

Analyzes over several Java AD projects as well as Java / Cobol AD ​​projects are currently not possible. A large number of analysis queries have to be started on individual Java AD projects and then the results have to be summarized manually. This...

Additional Java analysis functions

Currently analysis can only be started on a Java AD project in Explore View. In contrast to this, in the Navigator View on eclipse projects, files, source folders and Java class analyzes can be started.Regardless of the view, only the call graph c...

Grouping of eclipse projects from a workspace to an AD project

With a grouping of all eclipse projects within a workspace to an AD project, the display of the AD projects in the Explorer View becomes more manageable and analyzes of related eclipse projects is much easier.Use of analysis options, which are oth...

HOD 655 error for VT display session during report generation for 5 minutes or more

we cannot use HOD to perform our Business-related functions due to reverting back to the logon screen when generating reports.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 2 Planned for future release

Please enhance the Data Level and DECB views

Please enhance the Data Level and DECB views to have a right click "copy block contents to clipboard" action.
almost 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

FPBP64M does not take effect to current working (scheduling) applications

We found that FPBP64M potential system outage risk like a real storage shortage, the FPBP64M current design is not able to protect the real storage shortage because current applications can expand the FPBP64 pool unlimitedly beyond the value of FP...
almost 10 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Fast Path 1 Not under consideration