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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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RDz COBOL Editor - column restricted search

COBOL Editor should provide the similar functionality of "Column Restricted" searching as the same as LPEX Editor.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Enhanment to PLI facility IBMPXSF

PL/I symbolic data generated for Application Performance Analyzer returns EOF when trying to open data with in APA.
over 10 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Additional option on ZMQSC DISP QL-* CURDEPTH to limit display

On our system there are 84 local MQ queues defined, of these only a few will have messages queued but to identify these requires a display that shows all queue counts: "ZMQSC DISP QL-* CURDEPTH " An additional "THRESHOLD-1" parameter should be imp...
over 10 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Future consideration

RDz - Tape Managment Support

Enhance RDz to provide basic tape management support. Currently we use RMMI from ISPF but would like to see a GUI interface at some point to support mainframe developers.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Exclude Records option in MVS files

We have (Exclude records) option in file manager plug in. Is it possible to have similar functionality under MVS files.
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Omegmaon command for Health check

Customer want to monitor Omegamon's status,do some health check,they want to get the information according to send some command through Netview console,after discuss with Omegamon L3,they confirm that there are not such command,so we open this RFE.
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Hope that whatever omegamon command can support EMCS console response

after we send some omegamon command through Netview console,we can not get the response from SDSF.ULOG/SYSLOG,only can capture it in its JOBLOG.
over 10 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Debug CICS programs issued by a START command on a single 3270 session

When debugging a program in CICS that issues a START command, the program that is being started can not be debugged on the same terminal id. This is because the terminal id is in use by the program issuing the start. This requires a) The GUI b) Mu...
over 10 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

EST Bottom-Up support for modern webservices

Generating webservices for the CICS in RDz is currently done by using the Enterprise Service Tools (EST) features.It supports two different approaches, top-down and bottom-up.The top-down approach is based on a constructed WSDL file and supports m...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

RC not zero when message DFHRM0203 in Cics shutdown

During CICS shutdown, message DFHRM0203 is issued to inform that there are UOW pending but Cics terminates with RC=0.
over 10 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration