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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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ControlM for Z/OS plugin

WE need an eclipse plug in to créate and mantain controlm job definitions, and other definitions of this 3rd party software.
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

Making the times in display consistent or customizable

We have an issue because there are so many components to the time clock. We recently had a user in the Eastern Timezone working with a user in the Pacific Timezone. The tool where the servers are (Central Timezone). One of the displays also had GM...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Not under consideration

Communicate with Remote Logstash Instance in a Standard Format

Create a standard format to be pushed by the z/TPF system to a remote Logstash instance in an attempt to limit the need for custom logstash plugins.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Add Proxy Use to Enhanced HTTP Client

Update the Enhanced HTTP Client to be able to connect through a proxy via supplied parms for the new HTTP client API. The "old" HTTP client allowed proxy usage.
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Need mechanism to add Assembler Macros from a PDS into the User Macro Definitions file

In the release of RDz version 8.0.3 there is a new feature in the Assembler editor that determines if a Macro found in the source is valid. This process comes with a file that defines the IBM supplied Macros, but if a client has Macros that have b...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 align Left / align Right Functions

I have seen the new functions in PL/I 5.1/5.2 for inserting characters behind and befor a string (LEFT,RIFHT). First a thaught this would be functions to align a string in an variable storage, because this is what I am searching for, but when I tr...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Simplify left/right

I know you wanted to have all possibilites in left / right, but I think the 2 parameter in the functions should be optional, because no programmer wants to spezify the length of the target. If I have an "=" the left side is the target, the length ...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 1 Not under consideration

HOD 12.0.0: add support for the eclipse 4.x version

Trying to use the product inside eclipse 4.7 the plugins, as are packaged by the utility present in the product to be used in eclipse, cannot be installed within version 4.The problem comes from how plugin.xml and fragment.xml are made: they don't...
over 6 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Protocol enhancement 1 Not under consideration

RDz CARMA is presenting previously saved information in fields that should be left blank and input by user on Endevor reqs.

When using RDz CARMA, you are provided the capability of selecting "Remember the entered values for later" on all functions that you can perform. This is a nice feature because a lot of the information may be the same for subsequent requests that ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

Zospt could reproduce the current existing CPSM together with the data

BOC have several suite of CPSM, and would like zospt to quickly re-produce the exactly same one, including the topology and the data including the repository data and CSD data
over 6 years ago in z/OS Provisioning Toolkit / zospt utility 1 Not under consideration