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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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MFS editor, changes in design view should be propagated in source view

A MFS format definition contains 4 parts: . EQU . format (FMT) . input msg . output msg So far, changing a field's length from the Design view changes the field's length in the format (FMT) only, not in the input or output msgs. The changes should...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

RDz/JES should implement cancel+keep (EJES K)

the customer is using EJES from Phoenix Software international, an alternate product to SDSF. it implements the function K (cancel+keep the report).The customer would like to have this function implemented in RDz/JES
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

GUI tooling to specify and generate compensational actions for IMS

Banco Itau is developing new IMS callout application, which needs to handle failure scenarios. We would like to see the ability in RDz to provide a visual compensation tooling to ease IMS callout application development experience.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

We have a need for Linux based RD/z

Software developers here will be getting RD/z on their development PCs soon. Another issue for us is that our DR site has only Linux workstations and therefore, currently, has no way of hosting RD/z. So, for us to implement RD/z fully, we would ne...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

GUI tooling to visually compose and generate IMS flow applications

Banco Itau is developing new IMS flow application, which involves synchronous program switch to IMS applications and synchronous callout to external applications. We would like to see the ability in RDz to provide a visual composition tooling to e...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

RDZ / LPEX PL1 hi-light if/do/end etc.

When developing PL1 programs on z/os using the ispf editor, we have a hi-ligth facility available.Among the features is the ability to have the editor coloring matching do-end groups.I.e. in this example: if a = 0 then do; if b = 0 then do; if c =...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Provide a possible limitation for display of sequential datasets

When a User opens a large sequential dataset in Remote Systems view (RDz) it can be that RDz hangs and has to be shut down or even killed. A possible solution could be that (like for JES output) RDz would provide the option to set some display lim...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Replace Term

With RDz there are 2 options to replace term. If you have a fix right border the replace trucates the term - this is not what the developer wants. If you remove the right border, the replace works, but the comment is moved. This is also not what t...
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Provide the same capabilities for PS files as for PO members

RDz currently provides only very limited support for PS files, for example, no JCL can be created for a PS file. Although the RDz context menu allows the possibility to generate JCL, it does not have any function.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

Add a property to display the last index creation time for a PDS

Add a property attribute to display the last lucene index creation timestamp for a pds.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

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