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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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Identify Copybook Usage in zOS Connect API with Application Discovery

What we're looking for is a way to identify potential conflicts when a Copybook is in play in either our MVS system (home-grown Host SCM Tool) or outside of the mainframe in OMVS and or the z/OS Connect environment.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

add Project name, Package name and your versions on COBOL and JAVA Source

when the COBOL and JAVA is generated from the EGL, add comment in the source of the project, package, version and date/time of the created of the EGL source location of the program and all function.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Add two system variables to know the program and function names

Would be helpful if we had the EGL language system variable to get the program name and function name to which the code is currently running. Name exemple: sysVar.isProgram and sysVar.isFunction.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Support JWT in zCEE API Toolkit IBM Explorer for z/OS

From the PMR:Hello,I've confirmed with the z/OS Connect EE developers that JWT authentication from the z/OS Connect EE API toolkit is not supported. Could the customer raise an RFE that would start with z/OS Explorer host connections and then we c...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 2 Not under consideration

CARMA - RDZ 8031 - FIND OR LOCATE MEMBER

Please add a "FIND MEMBER" or "LOCATE MEMBER" option on CARMA folders. It makes it much easier to go directly to a member. We should not have to create and then delete a filter view to get this result.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 5 Not under consideration

RDz user needs the capability to specify how <HLQ> parameter in property groups gets resolved.

RDz users should have the capability to specify how the <HLQ> parameter in property group definitions gets resolved. Currently, if user's source is in a common PDS (i.e TEST.COBOL.SRC), <HLQ> gets resolved to the HLQ of the source libr...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Several suggestions regarding RDz CARMA New Endevor Package dialogue

This RFE covers a couple concerns encountered going through the New -> Endevor Package dialogue. Here are the issues that customer has identified: 1) The first panel displayed has the title "New CARMA Member". This title should be "Create New P...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

ODBM and IMS DB Universal JDBC Driver Support for INQY DBQUERY

Customer applications have problems when they tried to know the IMS db availability before to access to them from the java client application side, and they would have to use the INQY call, but unfortunately there is no interface in JDBC Type 4 mo...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 1 Not under consideration

Extend CICS' integrated digital signature support to include SOAP Headers.

The customer is sending a SOAP message to a business partner and requires one or more SOAP headers to be digitally signed. However, the CICS WS-Security implementation will only sign the SOAP *Body* in outbound messages, as discussed here: publib....
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Allow VT to reference Alliases

Customer programs reference table aliases rather than base tables. CICS VT should provide a mechanism to work with DB2 alias names as well as base table names.
almost 13 years ago in CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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