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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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Allow more properties to be set on the DojoDateTextBox

1) The date displayed in a DojoDateTextBox is always aligned to the left. It would be useful to expose an alignment property so that this could be changed at design time 2) As of RBD 8.0.1.2 a "down arrow" is displayed to the right of the date tha...
about 13 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 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...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

CQS display commands should show also the EMC usage

Commands /CQQ STATISTICS STRUCTURE ALL and QRY STRUCTURE SHOW(ALL) should show also the number of allocated and currently used EMC in a way similar to the one used in the output of message IXC585E :*IXC585E STRUCTURE DFSCQSMSGQSP IN COUPLING FACIL...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

DB/DC vs. DCCTL CSA storage comparisons

The usage of resources like CSA is expected to be different between IMS in a DB/DC configuration and IMS in a DCCTL configuration. Analysis proved that some "DB" modules are currently (IMS V14) loaded also in a DCCTL environment even if not requir...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

Allow INIT clause on the DEFINE ALIAS statement

It could be beneficial, when defining an alias, to define as well a default initial value. When this alias is used in a variable declaration, this initial value would be automatically applied. Example: DEFINE ALIAS CASH_AMOUNT DEC FIXED(18,2) INIT...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Allow REFER option on WSDL structures

Arrays with the REFER options are currently not allowed in WSDL files (Cics Web Services). At compile time, we get the following message: DFHPI9540E Unsupported keyword " REFER " has been found. REFER is not allowed for the WSDL The equivalent Cob...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 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 ...
about 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 3 Not under consideration

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

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

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

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