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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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(in the Data Tools) Get rid of Return All Rows - or allow sites to remove via Preferences

In the Data Tools - the "Return all rows" option is dangerous, for z/OS shops. This is because - typically, z/OS DB2 databases measure in the 10's of thousands to low million rows. Often with 100s of columns. Return all rows does not have a Prefer...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Need LPEX/ISPF F5/F6 combination to behave like TSO

When I use F5/F6 on ISPF, the F5 finds an occurence, and F6 changes that (found) occurence. In RDz F5 finds an occurence, but pressing F6 finds and changes the NEXT occurence - not the current occurence.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RD/z workspace is destroyed when ctrl-alt-del

Sometimes RD/z Windows client tries to do something that causes a hang with an hour-glass cursor. It may remain an hour-glass for a few minutes or forever. Customers then do ctrl-alt-del to break out of it. There is a good chance that they have ju...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Enable HEX find for EBCDIC binary values in LPEX

The overwhelming % of RDz users edit with LPEX - because it emulates ISPF - and ISPF is necessary as a transition to the GUI experience. Currently Ctrl+F Find (or Picture string Find) with Regular Expressions finds only hex values in ASCII. The tr...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

LPEX Editor REXX Highlighting for functions is wrong

LPEX marks user-written procedure/functions in REXX the same way like keywords and built-in functions. This should not happen. Following solution proposal:All self-defined functions will be highlighted by a different highlight option and all built...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Retrieve Data Set - allow us to click ok - not consistent

When building a retrieved data set you have to press enter. This is not consistent with the rest of the product. You should allow us to select the ok.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide a row/column filter for the Table Editor in the Data Perspective

Most user testing DB2 tables contain well over 100,000 rows, and often 40 --> 200 columns. This make sthe Table Editor very much less useful. Many companies have clamored for this - as they feel the Data Perspective is a very useful part of RDz...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Equivalent of DTU option 8 in RDz

Today, to add the CEEOPTS in a JCL from any RDz editor, you need to create a snippet with a hard coded IP address. We want something like the DTU option 8 on the mainframe. Select Submit with Debug (new right click option on the member name). Then...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 4 Not under consideration

RAA - DELETION OF CICS DATA STORES

A CICS file was accidetnally defined to a region in RAA. There is no option to delete as there is to delete a program, copy member, etc... It is not user friendly to delete an entire CICS region defined in RAA and redefine it to remove a resource.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

DB2 - allow us to start the search in middle of file or key

Allow us to be able to change the starting search on a DB2 file. Today we are limited to the max number of records to search. It would be nice to beable to start in the middle or towards the ends so that we can get to all records on the DB2 file.
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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