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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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Hover function in Debug Tool GUI

Hovering with the mouse does not display the contents of a field when the field name ends on the position prior to the numbers on the right hand side of the program listing. This needs to be fixed.
over 12 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Is a defect

A syntax check to alert developers when things are in ?A? that should be in ?B?.

I was assisting a developer in trying to figure out why his content assist was not working for anything in his PROCEDURE DIVISION. After compiling the code, the compiler stated that all of his PROCEDURE level code, was not in area B (he had them i...
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Is a defect

Add a message box indicating that no remote file synchronization is possible

When requesting a remote synchronization with no remote file, there is no indication that it can not be performed. This behavior is inherited from the team synchronization functionality from Eclipse. Eclipse indicates there isn't a remote file by ...
over 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Is a defect

Running the DFHWS2LS utility to generate a requester Web Service using the Java Cache Sharing parameter generates errors:

Will this be corrected in the future (i.e., either remove Java cache sharing from CWA scripts or correct the errors sharing causes).
over 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Is a defect

Missing VSAM options in File Manager panels

Some VSAM definition parameters are not available from the FM panels under ISPF. We do not want to use the DSFA function. All options must be available from panels such as FMNPSCEL.
over 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Is a defect

FM batch return codes

In a file we are searching for some specific arguments. When a record will be found then this record afterwards will be seen in SYSLIST. When at least once this search argument has been found, then the return code should be zero (RC=0).
over 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Is a defect

FIND/REPLACE option starts from the first record instead of from the cursor position.

The FIND/REPLACE option will not work from cursor position. It always starts from the first record. If a user wants to replace a value in records 10, 11, 12 and their cursor is on record 9, the replace starts at record 1 not at record 10.
over 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 3 Is a defect

In FM Base, allow for the aging of fields that occur multiple times within a record definition.

A customer (Wellpoint) reported that when attempting to use data aging on a field that is part of an occurs/occurs depending on clause, File Manager does not age ANY of the occurances.
over 12 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Is a defect

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