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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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Getting a list of available Compile-Options/Link-Options etc. for selection in property group editor

This would avoid the problem, developers sometimes have, with memorizing the syntax of Compile-Options. An alternative would be a content assist for these options.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Editing Cobol Files without sequence numbers and from column 7 automatically

In order to edit a Cobol sourcefile in LPEX without sequence numbers (which were inserted on the host), and viewing the file starting with column 7, we always have to say ?unnum? and then ?num cob? after opening the file. We would like to have a p...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

The Projects view should display the Last Used Date and allow the input of metadata

The Projects view should display the Last Used Date and allow the input of user-specified metadata (such as, description). It should be possible to specify metadata at the project, subproject and dataset (member) level.If possible, it should be ab...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Content Assist not available from Remote Search and Remote z/OS Search tabs in RD/z.

Content Assist (CTRL-Space) is not currently available from Remote Search and Remote z/OS Search tabs in RD/z. We would like this functionality because we think it would be very beneficial to have the Content Assist feature available on these tabs...
over 13 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Macro support using the Emulator

We need to be able to build multi Macro's. We would then like to beable to define keys on the keyboard that would automaticly kick off a predefined macro.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

The "Check Data Set" button should process the <HLQ> variable

Currently the "Check Data Set" button ignores entries that use the <HLQ> variable.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 7 Not under consideration

In the emulator a double click should act as an enter as all pc tools do

While in the emulator a douple click should act as an enter as it does with all other PC tools.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz should implement the TCPIP connection state of the art

As of today, the TCPIP initialization of RDz is not as it should be. There are 2 cases. The first one is if RDz is connecting to TCPIP during initialization and TCPIP is not yet up. RDz does NOT do any retries as other products (CICS etc) do. RDz ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Install 3 Not under consideration

Generate the Symbolic Map from an API instead of from the context menu.

Ability to generate the Symbolic Map programatically. Currently this can only be done from the context menu and requires a set of steps to be done manually by the end user. In order to avoid end user errors the customer would like to perform this ...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Top down approach(WSDL to copybook) for IMS SOAP

Our customer has decided to adopt interface centric design using WSDL. We have several environments including Web Services requester and provider. So we must have both top-down approach (WSDL to COBOL copybook) and bottom-up approach (COBOL copybo...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

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