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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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Use of unqualified objects in SQL-based triggers

When connecting to db2 on our iSeries we are used to using jt400/jdbc property naming=system, which enables us to use unqualified objects like tables, stored procedures and such. This brings great flexibility. When a trigger containing unqualified...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 1 Not under consideration

Quick Connect Bar

We disable the Quick Connect Bar via GPO. We need these ADM files to be converted to ADMX and ADML format.
over 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Cloud Extender service account

service account linked to CE service is not showing fully qualified domain name, it is truncated.Please look into Case number TS004365864 for details.
about 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Needs support for OIDC

The DBB server can be configured with OIDC and accessed from a Web browser but the DBB toolkit on z/OS fails to connect to it with the below error: Caught: com.ibm.dbb.repository.ConnectionException: BGZTK0034E Attempting to create build result Te...
about 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration

Adding additional columns and fields to the Test Step section in RQM

RQM should allow adding couple of more columns along withexpected result and steps in RQM testscripts
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

RPP misses error messages after generation when referencing program in subprojects

After migration from Pacbase to RPP, some libraries can be split.When that happens, error messages may be missing after generation if the Error entity is defined in a project higher on the hierarchy than the project of the program. see RPP story 2...
about 9 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under consideration

Convenient Generate icon for pacscreen design changes

After changing a screen design (i.e. -CE tab or -CG tab) in the PDP editor, the only method of generating code is selecting the design entity from the project view, right click, select generate, then generate pacsreen. It would helpful to have a c...
about 11 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Migration Pacbase - Refactoring toutes sessions

Bonjour, Dans le cadre de la pr?paration ? la migration Pacbase vers RPPz, nous allons avoir ? faire des op?rations de "refactoring" (recodification) sur les entit?s comportant des caract?res non autoris?s dans RPPz. Ces actions vont devoir ?tre f...
over 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 2 Not under consideration

Editeur de macros - Num?rotation des lignes

Bonjour, J'ai cru comprendre que les num?ros de lignes survivaient au niveau des macros RPP, (en particulier je pense pour g?rer le positionnement entre plusieurs macros qui se compl?tent). Avec Pacbase, nous avons souvent ?t? contraints par la pl...
over 12 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 3 Not under consideration

RPPz - Support des "nested programs"

Il est possible d'introduire des fonctions techniques au travers de macros-structures dans les programmes.Pour des raisons techniques ou pour clarifier le code, il serait int?ressant de pouvoir mettre en oeuvre des "nested programs" ou programmes ...
almost 13 years ago in Rational Programming Patterns 4 Not under consideration