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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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New EPLI INDEX-like builtin

For ad-hoc lookups it is possible to store data, padded with suitable non-occuring fillers in a VAR CHAR variable. Checking if the data is present can subsequently be done using INDEX(haystack, needle) / POS(needle, haystack) However, both of the ...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

A builtin function REPLACE is requested

/*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* REPLACE is to replace the first occurrence of string FIND_STR /* within UPDATED_STRING with string REPL_STR. /* Start searching for FIND_STR at STARTPOS. If anything was re...
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

EPLI V4.3 - VARLENGTH data-type for implementation size of VAR CHAR leading length field

We would ask for a new data-type VARLENGTH (or something similar) which has the same size as the actual implementation size of a VAR CHAR leading length field (which is 2-bytes at the moment).
about 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 5 Not under consideration

Add an exit to allow using different history files

Please an exit which will direct Fault Analyzer to write to a specific history file, based on criteria such as Job name, submitting user ID, abend code, etc. This will allow different history files to be used without requiring users to have to cha...
about 11 years ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Extend the C++ remote editor automatic search of occurrences

The C++ remote editor automatic search of occurrences (obtained by a click or double click) works only with simple variables. Function, elements pointed are ignored.See examples.
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 3 Not under consideration

Repository date control for CICS

Please update Hourglass to allow date/time control for CICS through the repository like all other online systems. My customer would like date/time control for all their regions and jobs in one location. Thank you. Rose
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

CICS Exclude Lists

In CICS, add support for excluding transactions and programs from Hourglass processing.
about 11 years ago in IBM HourGlass for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

SYSTEM LPEX EDITOR: Automatic comment block improvement

The system LPEX editor cannot comment a bloc of lines of an asm file when it contains one line with 71 characters length.In that case, it comments only the last line of the block
about 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 6 Not under consideration

Metacobol - Provide a way for Identify Preprocessor Statements function to ignore additional cosmetic and syntactically equiv

Provide a way for Identify Preprocessor Statements function to ignore additional cosmetic and syntactically equivalent differences
about 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Simplify SSL connection setup in Application Performance Analyzer Eclipse plugin

To enable APA SSL connection in Eclipse plugin, it required users to import the keystore file manually and setup password. However, SSL already enabled in Problem Determination tool started task IPVSRV. As part of PD tools should use the same SSL ...
about 11 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration