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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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Rational Developer for System z should preserve member statistics (created/changed date) when COPY/PASTE done to another PDS.

When using Rational Developer for System z (RDz) to COPY member from one z/OS PDS and PASTE member into another z/OS PDS, ISPF statistics on member should be transferred as well. This should work like ISPF 3.3 does when copying member(s) from one ...
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Dramatically reduce java memory used per WSDL deployed in SGW

SGW 2.1 as well as 2.2 use a lot of Java heap space for each deployed wsdl. This memory used per wsdl has to be dramatically reduced to be able to deploy more than 2000 wsdls in a single SGW instance. Most of the memory seems to be consumed due to...
almost 12 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / SOAP Gateway 3 Not under consideration

RDZ Syntaxcheck PLI-Programm in PLI-Editor

They might be able to add a setting to the Real Time Syntax Check Preferences so that you could set an option such as NOSYN and the parser would then not flag that statement.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDZ Syntaxcheck PLI-Programm in PLI-Editor

They might be able to add a setting to the Real Time Syntax Check Preferences so that you could set an option such as NOSYN and the parser would then not flag that statement.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Sonarqube analyzer for EGL

We want to analyze quality of EGL code.There is already a tool which name is Software Analyzer in RBD.We want to analyze EGL code with Sonarqube besides Software Analyzer.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 1 Not under consideration

RDz Time out issues

RFE submitted at the request of Venkat (Rational Architect) While editing in RDz for a long time, even though we are in RDz, RDz times out. RDz should provide a warning message that it is about to disconnect.
almost 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Extend AD metamodel to load additional types of ressources

Extend AD metamodel to load additional types of ressources by adding user define tables in AD database and provide a generic parser to fill these tables. Being able to perform custom request using integrated AD feature.
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support SAS language

Support SAS language
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Retrieve DB2 informations from other DB2 tables

Retrieve DB2 informations from other DB2 tables instead of regular DB2 catalog
almost 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Provide function similar to CALL CEETEST to allow Debug Tool to be started from a non-LE batch assembler program

Description: Currently, Debug Tool can be started by an application program by coding a CALL to CEETEST. However, this capability is limited in that it only works for LE programs. This RFI requests a similar capability for non-LE assembler program...
almost 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration