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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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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.
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 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 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Allow DebugTool to be used with CARMA

Currently DebugTool cannot be invoked from a CARMA user-written RAM.This greatly impairs debugging.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 7 Not under consideration

LPEX REXX Parser should handle DO & END Block as Matchable Bracket

In a REXX source, if I position myself on a DO keyword and issue CTRL+M (i.e. Matchable Construct) within RDz Z/OS LPEX the DO-END block is not recognized. Such it's quite difficult to recognize corresponding DO/END's. We consider this a REXX Pars...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Turn off notify boxes on updates and submits

The pop up boxes should be optional. In windows pref I should be able to tell the system that I don't want to see the pop up Boxes. This slow me down.
over 14 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration