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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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Add support for CADP to GUI

Both the customization guide and the user guide allow for both CADP and DTCN as debug profiles managers. See DT User Guide, chapter 17 for the advantages of CADP over DTCN. I've been led to understand, on the other hand, that CADP is no longer bei...
over 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 402 Not under consideration

Support ruler line in Host Emulator

We hope the host emulator can be enhanced to support a ruler line, which is the same as PCOMM.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

optionally add a SOAP-header in MPP to the web service response

Use case: building IMS based web services based on wsdl first approach. With current version it's possible to pass an optional SOAP-header in the request to the MPP. Similar to the request, it should be possible to optionally pass back a SOAP-head...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

RDz: Fix Ctrl-Z "Undo" function

When using Ctrl-Z from withing the LPex editor the Undo function will cycle through previously undone changes, placing them back into the code. Original state... make change1...Ctrl-Z undoes change 1 and source is back to original state...make cha...
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

For TOS, Provide a Recall Commands Expiration Period

For TOS (TPF Operations Server): We recently had an impact because someone pulled up (up arrow) the last command entered on the console and cycled a wrong system to 1052 without taking off the traffic, causing an impact. We would like the command ...
over 11 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Operations Server 3 Not under consideration

Propagate SOAPFAULT to locally-optimized WebServices

With Webservices, a service-provider can issue SOAP-Faults to return information to the service-consumer. These SOAP-faults are modeled within the wsdl. If the service-consumer uses the INVOKE SERVICE command to call a WebService that runs locally...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 4 Not under consideration

Explorer does not fix file buffers after a files strings are updated

When you do a copy of a file definition in CE and you change the strings it does NOT fix the buffers, but doing it through CEDA does, is there a reason why?
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Avoid overhead of systrace snapshot at program check time

CICS uses an ESTAE or ESTAEX to establish its general purpose recovery environment. One of the performance implications of this design is that on every program check, before the CICS ESTAE exit routine is driven, RTM2 will do a systrace snapshot (...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Determine issuer of Call level DLI call from XRMIOUT exit program

We have a need to determine, at run-time, the invoking program of every EXEC CICS call and of every External Resource Manager call..Our application programs are mostly Cobol programs.These Cobol programs often use a Cobol dynamic call to invoke ot...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Not under consideration

Create 'Error list' for real-time check

The real-time check does not populate the error list. It just tag the affected lines. When you have many effected lines all you see is yellow areas on the right. Almost impossible to navigate.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

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