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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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Need easy way to enter some data in hex on expression of breakpoints

When entering data in the EXPRESSION field on the optional parameters panel for a BREAKPOINT I don't have an easy way of entering just one byte of a 20 byte value that is a non displayable hex value. Say I want the expression to be: CARD="ALL CHAR...
over 16 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 6 Not under consideration

Lotus Domino Integration with EGL

This is for IBM i customers. We have recently had requests from several customers to provide some form of integration between EGL generated applications and Lotus Domino database applications. It may be acceptable to treat the application as a dat...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 5 Not under consideration

errorClass attribute needed for server-side validation

It would be really nice to be able to specify an errorClass attribute that would be triggered if a field failed a standard JSF validation such as a range clause. It could be a subtag that would check the same field that the h:message tag checks fo...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 5 Not under consideration

DataItem: Add Cobol 88 like symbolic name for the validValues

Hi In order to get an equivalent syntax/semantic of the Cobol level 88 value, it wold be interesting to add a symbolic name to the valdValues of a DataItem. In Cobol, one can haveWORKING STORAGE.01 SEX PIC X(1) VALUE 'M'.88 MALE VALUE 'M'.88 FEMAL...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 3 Not under consideration

Enable recording for Cobol VS II

We are in a process to migrate from Cobol II to Enterprise Cobol and zVTP would be a great resource to help us test but we can't record using Cobol II, we've got an abend S0C4 during the recording.
3 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

PLI record support for QSAM

Currently the QSAM support does apply only for Cobol, we'd like to see this feature also available on PLI.
3 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow ENTRY statement in BMP programs

When creating/modifying a test case with the dynamic test runner (BZUPLAY), make then ENTRY-statement supported.
13 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Show differences in Runner result view in user friendly way

In many cases the difference in result shows hexadecimal data in the Runner Results viewer The interpretation of the available information is very difficult Currently there seems to be a workaround via changing Test Result Format to "result deta...
13 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

automatic recall of migrated datasets when using TAZ EDTz

Previous product into - zUnit creates some dediated files on mainframe, but if those datasets get migrated, zUnit is not able to recall these datasets automatically. Can this be provided ?
13 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
13 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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