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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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Insert current timestamp using RDzs DB2 Table Editor

With QMF, I can type CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and insert the current timestamp value into a TIMESTAMP column. I can't do that RDzs DB2 table editor
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Display SQL results in a larger window in RDzs Data Perspective

When I execute an SQL within the Data Perspective of RDz, 1) The results are not displayed by default. Instead the execution time is displayed.2) The results window is hidden in a small frame in the lower right corner.It would be nice if a new tab...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Rui MVC: make entire form input or read only at runtime

Add functionality to Rich UI MVC to make entire form input or read only at runtime.Also, allow programmer to specify at the FormField record that a given form field is a key field
almost 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Key Mapping Improvements

I am submitting this on behalf of a customer per their request. Increasing the key mapping capabilities for the RDz Host Connection Emulator so that it moves closer to that of HOD or PCOMM, starting with mapping of Ctrl keys.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Rdz non round tripable characters

In a rdz plugin, when copying a file from z/os to a local folder, we need information on non roundtripable character available via the java API.Especially ebcdic 25 values translated to ascii 0A.
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

RDZ Should honor mainframe violations limit

we are running rdz76 and had a user get multiple security violations until they reached the violation limit at which time we recevied 130 additional multiple Excessive Violations messages before the user stopped of his own accord. On zos, if a use...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

EGL RUI swapWidgets function

swapWidgets (w1 Widget, w2 Widget); A function that removes Widget w1 (from a box for example) and puts Widget w2 in its place.
about 14 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Not under consideration

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
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration