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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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Improve AD download process

One thing probably to note is that once one type of source is downloaded into AD, the saving/processing of that happens only if the user initiates some other activity on the Build Client. This adds to the wait time between downloads.
about 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enhance EXEC CICS DELETE...GENERIC with a check option

A programmer must be able to find out how many records are eligible for deletion BEFORE the real deletion takes place. Perhaps a kind of EXEC CICS DELETE ... GENERIC NODATA/NORECS to receive in NUMREC the number of records eligible for deletion. T...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

RDz should not close all my windows(Edit session of remote files) when my remote system connection lost

RDz is closing all my windows when Remote system connection lost. This was changed RDz 9.0 version onwords. Earlier it used to work fine.There was a design change from RDz 9.0.1 on words.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

FM GUI to Generate SQL

Create SQL code in the GUI similar to the 3270 interface
about 10 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

API for IDz compare functionality (and a save dialog when using the SWAP button in case of sources are in dirty state)

It would be useful to have an API for the IDz compare including the possibility to edit one or both of the two compared sources (similar to the EditorOpener.getInstance().browse/.open).Additionally there is a problem using the SWAP button. When yo...
about 5 years ago in z/OS Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Extend User Builds under RDz additionally to other languages, not only Cobol and PL1

You can run a User Build for COBOL and PL/I from RDZ, but NOT for other type of tranlators that can exists in RTC for the host, as assembler, IBM Migration Utility, CA EasyTreave, etc. This has an important limitation that this solution is not val...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

CICS RECEIVE/RECEIVE MAP API should have a "NOWAIT" option.

It would be most helpful if the CICS API were to support a "NOWAIT" option on all forms of EXEC CICS RECEIVE / RECEIVE MAP, such that if the API is invoked and terminal data are not immediately available, then the command would immediately complet...
about 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Preference for blocking line length in PL1 and Cobol editor

We have some developers, which have a challenge some times they by accident add to much text to the lines, and when saving, it's truncated, since our Libarian/Endevor source repository only saves the first 80 columns of the source. If would be nic...
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Control the file transfer size on RDz host?

Need a control from RDZ host to limit the maximum size of file transfer request.
about 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add support for dynamic arrays in the Catalog and IMS Explorer-created Database Views

REQUIREMENT: When performing some preliminary testing for accessing IMS data through the Catalog, we ran into an error for one of our segments that stated dynamic arrays were not supported when creating the PCB object. This is a potential showstop...
about 5 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

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