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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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Mac OS support

Request for support of the COBOL Compiler on Mac OS.
about 12 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

LPEX : Have a keyboard shortcut for Fill Selection

LPEX Editor in ispf modeHave a keyboard shortcut for Fill Selection, which can be found by right after clicking then Selected File Selection -> Fill Selection...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

LPEX : New preference for having Rectangle Selection

LPEX Editor in ispf modeHaving Rectangle Select be able to select one less character when using rectangle selection in LPEX Editor (ispf mode).
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Not under consideration

Request to add 5250 Protocol support in RPT to be able to test 5250 applications using RPT

RPT currently supports the TN3270 protocol, it will also be very good to have support for 5250 protocol too.
over 12 years ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 3 Not under consideration

Need more builtin functions in C/C++ compiler

In the XL C/C++ Programming Guide there are only a few General instructions like __pack and __unpack.In order for Metal C to be used for system software it would be better if these instructions were expanded so __asm would not have to be used as o...
about 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - non-dependent codepage binary code

In our RFE 127911, we propose the generation of a platform-independent binary code, which can possibly be run on non-EBCDIC platforms. This assumes that strings of characters, possibly reduced to a single character, are also independent of the pla...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V5/V6 - ARCH(0) for non-dependent hardware

As stated in our RFE 110886, the choice of ARCH level during compilation can be problematic. An alternative would be to produce a binary code independent of any hardware (zSeries or others). In the 1980's, I developed Cobol programs on the NCR VRX...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - No use of ED and EDMK HLASM instruction when OPTIMIZE level is not 0

We found that the Enterprise Cobol V6 did not use the ED and EDMK assembly instructions for formatting the edited numeric fields when the optimization level was not at 0 : OPTIMIZE(1|2).We deduced that these ED and EDMK instructions had an impact ...
about 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Not under consideration

SPI Audit retrofitted to CTS 4.2 environment.

Rrequesting the SPI Audit function be ported from CICS TS 5.1 to CICS TS 4.2. Without an auditing function for changes made though CICS explorer, we could not promote this product as a viable software solution to controlling our CICS environment. ...
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

StandaloneHOD support when javaws becomes deprecated/removed.

This is a request to have the StandAloneHOD in PCOMM to continue to work after java web start is deprecated/removed.
about 6 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

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