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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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Limit certain JES filter specifications through configurable option

Provide the ability to limit the specification of certain JES job filters through a client configurable option, preferrably on the server such that it applies to all clients. Ideally, there is a need to limit the specification of any of the values...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

Grouping of filter in the remote system view

It would be nice to group filter in the remote system view. It would be nice to add a descriptive frame for filter of the same topic . For example. I have a server on the host to administrate. For administration I need datasets containig administr...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Encrypt local cache on PC

Encrypt local cache on the PC.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Not under consideration

Encrypt local cache on PC

Encrypt local cache on the PC.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Be able to edit under Data Perspective the rows retrieved by an SQL statement

Today with Data Perspective we have the ability to edit a table, just by selecting the table in the explorer view and with Edit action. In this case we will be presented with the rows of the table.We find it very useful to set the criteria of the ...
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

Allow customer data to be added to IA tables

Provide an IA generic module that can be linked to by application programs using a pre-defined comunication area(channel/container) This new generic IA module would populate the data passed to it out to the IA collection files. This would five a c...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

A request for the ability to exclude Natural resources like CIUXPROG or CIUXTRAN.

The customer would like to have a way to Enable/ Activate, in a specific CICS region, an exclude list against Natural resources. For example to add an exclude program like CICS IA does for TS queues, programs, transactions, MQ queues, etc. Another...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Cobol Editor has to ignore any text after the column 80

The Cobol Editor falls in error if a line exceeds 80 characters.
almost 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Request to amend CICS compiler to detect undesirable (in HA) commands prior to allowing linkediting.

Certain parts of the CICS API are undesirable in a high-availability environment, for example, those creating region affinities, such as ADDRESS CWA and some enqueues. I would like to see the integrated compiler return an unique non-zero code such...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 3 Not under consideration

Add symbollist to GET and PUT CONTAINER

We wish for an enhancement to GET and PUT CONTAINER commands . That it further allows ,as well as the FROMCCSID and INTOCCSID options on the PUT and GET CONTAINER commands , the use of the SYMBOLLIST option that is allowed on a CREATE DOCUMENT com...
almost 13 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration