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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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Duplicate Java files being generated in the referenced projects

If EGL files for ?basic record' and ?sql record' are available in a separate project and is being referenced by one or more other projects, then the Java files corresponding to these EGL files are getting generated in all the referring projects in...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 4 Not under consideration

Application Discovery sets up annotations database to annotate by variable name for biz rules

Annotations Database allows user to comment on source code executable (like COBOL program). But suppose I want to focus on commenting on a specific variable in a copybook that is meaningful for a business rule, the annotations database does not su...
about 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Auto populate few fields

Hi,We like to auto populate few fields instead of application developer has to fill in the filed manually. Ex: approval group name, Package name
about 7 years ago in CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

HOD paste function doesn't handle negative number to spreadsheet

Rumba users migrating to Host On Demand. They are copying a numeric value which has a minus sign after the number to indicate a negative value. When they paste the number to Excel, it is copied as is with the minus sign at the end.
about 7 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to printing to Disk with Append

1) Need the ability to clear the print file between print Collections. After doing a 'Purge Collection' we would like the Print file cleared for the next set of Print Collection Screens. 2) We would like to be able to create a Word Document (.doc)...
over 7 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Handle Commands from Sterling Connect: Direct

Support the JCL call to PROC OSNDM8 (Sterling Connect: Direct) with the symbols' initialization to be used in the PROC analysis.
over 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

TXSeries & PL/1: change PL/1 CICS PP output to have meaningful listing to show actual code lines more clearly

Currently CICS pre-processor replaces processed EXEC CICS statements with a commented replacement line followed by the actual replacement code implementing the actual TXSeries API call This results in somewhat imprecise source code listings, where...
over 7 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

support service-signal / signal shutdown

Support External Interrupt 2401 (Service-Signal) to shutdown the zTPF system properly automatically. (Like zLinux) Upon receipt of the signal, a message should go to Prime CRAS:"Hypervisor Initiated Shutdown started. Max n seconds remain", then .....
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 6 Not under consideration

Test RFE

This is a test RFE
over 7 years ago in Record Generator for Java 6 Not under consideration

Need RSA3072 cypher or higher supported

Infoconnect, our intellegent terminal endpoint, requires SHA3072 or higher.Micro Focus uses the Implementation Guidance for FIPS 140-2 http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/fips140-2/FIPS1402IG.pdf . If you look at Table 2 (Recommended al...
over 7 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 4 Not under consideration

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