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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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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

RD/z "Light"

Software developers here will be getting RD/z on their development PCs soon. But, we have quite a few other users that don't need language or debugging support but would use ISPF & SDSF views etc. Hence the term RD/z Light. I would envision RD...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

WebService Enhancement

The MAJOR difference between all other platforms and the mainframe is the fact that the mainframe manipulates data stored in displacement oriented blocks. A requirement for displacement oriented data is a finite length specification. This hard non...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 3 Not under consideration

Number build outputfiles with sclm

We need a numbered outputfile for the build operation that will be started in rdz. you just can enter an name of the outputfiles. if these outputfiles allready exists, it will be overwritten. if you do the same example in the z/OS area you will ge...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Allow a common place for import/export of RD/z settings

I would like to see a common import/export facility for the likes of connections, property groups, file system mappings etc in a similar vein to browsers. Currently, RD/z has import/export in a variety of places. This would also allow for the impo...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

RD/z FM Interface should handle C header files

We use C code for our communications interface to our customers. We also use File Manager. FM should allow an interface with C INCLUDE header files in the same way in which Cobol INCLUDE files are handled.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 3 Not under consideration

Fill up the lines of Cobol programs in LPEX with blank up to column 80 to prevent the deletion of EOL

When editing a Cobol program in the LPEX editor, choose a line where there is no character from before the column 73 up to the column 80 (which means that the EOF (in ASCII mode) is before the column 73). If you now put the cursor after the EOF an...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

EGL - Using MVS data set from USS

The Java programs using JZOS can access HFS or MVS data sets for printing or working with sequential files. EGL generated java program on USS can only use HFS datasets for printing using Printform or for sequential datasets. We need same functiona...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

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