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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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Allow Debug Tool under RD/z to show dump format in memory displays

RD/z (when using Debug Tool) allows one to show memory in "Hex/Char". The trouble is that it does NOT, at least in my interpretation of Hex/Char format. My definition is "dump" format (which has been around for years) where the format is: address ...
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Not under consideration

Use standard methods for setting JCL parameters for compilation procedures

The RDz job generation process creates overrides for many compilation procedures. For example, the DBRMDSN and DBRMMEM variables for COBOL compilation with the DB2 preprocessor and coprocessor. In one case, the values are assigned explicitly for t...
almost 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Time Stamp format in Data Perspective, different than ISPF

In ISPF Spufi the timestamp for SQL results is JJJJ-MM-TT-hh.mm.ss.xxxxx In the Data Perspective it is missing the - between the date and the Time and instead of a period . between the hours and minutes it is a semi-colon :
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Improve support when the System Property Groups contain a large number of entries

When the System Property Groups file (propertygroups.xml) contains a large number of property groups it should be possible to update individual property groups in propertygroups.xml.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Not under consideration

Database perspective wrong hex convert

When you convert in the db2 perspective a search result from character to hex, the converted result is ASCII. Expected would EBCDIC because RDZ is for HOST. If you convert this again (reconverting was expected) the result is garbage.I expect a con...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

RDz, Enterprise Service Tools, right click on projects, functions missing

Generally in RDz when you right click on an Oject you get a really good listing of all the valid things you can do with that object.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic property group

A PDS Library can have COBOL/Assembler/BMS/PLI, with the current nature, you need to map the property manually for each member. If property groups can be dynamically established before reading the programs, it will reduce the manual setup.
about 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

support allowing non 01 level for imported copybook in EST (IMS SOAP G/W)

Our customer very strongly requires that RD/z EST for IMS Bottom-up tool can generate the WSDL(XSD) in the case that the first field of imported copybook is other than 01 level such as 03, 05. Because our customer's copybooks are composed of sever...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Enterprise Service Tools 4 Not under consideration

ISPF STATS OFF will not be respected by RDz when editing PDS Members

When editing PDS Members, RDz should respect the ISPF STATS option and leave it as it was when saving the member back.STATS can be set to OFF or ON in ISPF, at a minimum RDz should just leave it as it was. Optionally it would be nice to set the ST...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Allow Variable substitution on Bind parameters for DB2 applications

When configuring the Group Properties for compilation of COBOL programas with DB2 access, we need to configure the Bind Parameters that are hardcoded into properties. This is annoying to the users as he has to manually change the Bind parameters. ...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

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