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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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Fast EGL global variable declaration

Let's say i'm in line number 654 of my EGL RUI handler source code, and i'm writing a function, and i realize that i need a new (global) variable of type INT that would solve the thing. I would like to be able to resolve it from there, from inside...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Implement event bubbling for EGL/RUI

Events are not bubbled when a Widget catches the event. For example, the onKeyUp function of a Widget catches an event. This event will never make it to the onKeyUp fucntion of a parent Widget. A much better solution would be to really implement e...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Remote Java develop capability on RDz

Remote Edit : Enable JDT features including content assist for the remote Java files Remote Compile / build : Compile & error feedback to developerRemote debugging : Debug java applications remotely
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

EGL build in function to sort arrays of primitive types

Dear Sir or Madam,We from PKS company, partner of IBM, are developing RBD extensions for migration of RPG/Cobol programs to EGL. Thereby we missed an EGL function to sort arrays of primitive types, like it does the frequently used RPG operation co...
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Submit jcl by drag and drop in the remote system view

You can submit a jcl by choosing submit in the contextmenu in the remote systems view. I think it would be nice to submit a jcl by just dragging it in the JES tree in the remote sytems view. Submitting a jcl by following these steps:- left mouse c...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 2 Not under consideration

Modify RDz to allow breakpoints to be set outside of a debug session.

Recently, while attempting to resolve a tech support issue (PMR 62618,756) it was discovered that breakpoints cannot be set in code unless the code is already stopped at an execution point (i.e. - The compiled source code is already executing unde...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Need documentation on how to develop EGL Web application calling CICS programs using different languages

Each CICS server and associated DB2 database supports a single language (for example Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian)Only the EGL Web application retrieves data from these different sources.
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

Request to enhance error message for locale not supported during Informix extraction

When trying to extract database information to migrate from Informix i4GL to EGL, An error is raised when an incorrect locale is used: Locale not supported. It would be good to have an indication of what locale is supported. Error message seems to...
over 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 6 Not under consideration

Allow control of margins and fonts when printing out JES output

When trying to print job output data from SDSF you can bring up the output in RDz. This output is 133 characters wide. When you attempt to print it there is no way to change the margins or shrink the size of the text so that the output can be prin...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Need ability to easily view all lines in an editor window in hex mode

Need ability to easily view all lines in an editor window in hex mode.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

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