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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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Issue warning when we skip generation of dead code

Request to improve EGL validation to verify that every positional get statements (get next, get previous, ...) are following an open statement.
about 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 3 Not under consideration

EGLSDK should implement incremental regeneration of IR files [35226]

Environment: Windows Product name: IBM? Rational? Business Developer Program Version : 7.5.1.3Description.The EGLSDK command line always regenerates the IR files regardless of whether any associated EGL files have been altered or not. In the RBD G...
almost 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 5 Not under consideration

Re-generation of EGL programs

It would be very nice if the EGL programmer could right-click on an item in the "EGL Generation Results" window and choose "Re-generate Item". It would also be nice if the EGL programmer could right-click in the "EGL Generation Results" window and...
over 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Hierarchical package presentation does not work in the EGL Project Explorer

Create a new EGL Project. Create a package named a.b.c In the Project Explorer, the package shows up as "a.b.c" under the EGLSource folder. Click on the drop down arrow for the Project Explorer view to show the filters, Link Editor option, etc. Ex...
about 17 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 2 Not under consideration

How to move unstructured records between arrays

Customer, is trying to move an array of records to another empty one, using the move command with the byname syntax. It's possible to do it only with a structured record.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

No generation of java classes from referenced projects in the refering project.

Customer Published Description to be provided.
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Support arbitrary expressions for array initial length declarations

KBC requests that arbitrary positive integer expressions are supported for array initial length declarations, not just literals. It should be possible to write the following code for example, list dnt_map[in0s03_R_47.ipt_Zn.usr_Data.dnm_Tbl_Sze_Cr...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 4 Not under consideration

Make labels from SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS for SQL data items visible in egl parts reference-data declarations

In VAG we were retrieving record definitions from SQL. We had to fill description column for each dataitem manually (that was stupid because we already had it in SQL).Contents was visible when expanding application structure. In EGL when program i...
about 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Request to get the HTTP session ID

Customer would like to retrieve the HTTP session ID in EGL. It is possible to store or retrieve data from the session but not to get the ID of the session. It is possible to do it using a Java externalType but customer would like a pure EGL soluti...
over 15 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Other 4 Not under consideration

Change XMI Defaults for properties

When we create a new Dynamic Web Project with Websphere as ?Target Runtime? environment (see screenshots 2.1), a certain set of default properties are set in Webcontent/WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xmi (see screenshot 2.2). At KBC, we wish to have differen...
almost 16 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / User Interface (IDE) 3 Not under consideration