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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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support not just level 1 copy books in IMS SOAP XML gateway mappings

When creating an IMS SOAP XML Gateway mapping, RDz only allows selection of level 1 structures in copy books. However, there are times when we would like to select level 3 or 5 structures of the copy book.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

Save mappings and other configs to simplify modifications to web services

When an IMS SOAP XML Gateway web service is modified, RDz should have a way to save the prior settings and to simply make modifications to them instead of having to completely rebuild everything from scratch.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 6 Not under consideration

Multiple GLO2123I messages caused multiple incident ticket to be created

DBS Bank is using GLO2123I messages to automatically create an incident record in the incident/event management system however due to multiple GLO2123I messages generated by TAAM, i.e. one message per action taken caused multiple incident records ...
over 10 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 1 Future consideration

System z Data Editor: Change editor by "Open with"

After opening a file or member by System z Data Editor it should be possible to change the editor by "Open with". The System z Data Editor doesn't offer this function.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

System z Data Editor: Show found string using Find-Function

If you do a find request within the System z Data Editor the first line containing the string is highlighted and is scrolled to the beginning of the editor view. But we would like the editor to do additional highlighting to the string found and to...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Cobol formatter: preference for second command word

We would like to set an indentation value for the second word of a command, esp. for MOVE ... TO ... If the line is too short it should be broken before the "TO" and next line indented.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Cobol Editor: Overwrite block starting at position without marking target area

When inserting a block in Toggle Block Selection Mode while mode "Overwrite" is in effect the copied block should replace a block with same size starting at current position.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

CRUISE Restore BFA tape roll-in should allow read from multiple drives concurrently

The CRUISE Restore tape roll-in should allow tape reads from multiple drives concurrently. CRUISE should have the option to use more than one tape drive concurrently for the BFA tape roll-in phase. The tape drives can be kept stacked with tapes so...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS Event EP Adapter to allow for surrogate checking of context ID for transaction start

Currently, when building an Event EP Adapter to do a transaction start, you can specify to use the default context ID, or hardcode an ID. If you hardcode an ID, no surrogate checking or other security checking is done around one ID starting the tr...
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

DL/I Data Access Information Needed in E-3270

In our previous z/OS monitoring tools, we were able to see the DL/I information (using CALL DLI and EXEC DLI) for Batch programs using IMS/DBCTL. This information included the following: 1. All PSBs used, including those for programs invoked via C...
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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