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In Carma, when creating an Endevor package, change default from Stage number to Stage

When creating a package, defining the SCL to be performed, please change the default of Stage number to Stage. See the attachment. Currently the Move is defaulting to Stage number. We want the default to be Stage.
2 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / All components 0 Submitted

Implement line length limitations for the Compare Editor.

Currently the Compare Editor will allow you to compare two files with unlimited line length and save it. This can be a problem when working on line limited Cobol source programs. If you take an 80 character line limited Cobol program and compare i...
4 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Submitted

Document the BXH/BXLE/JXH/JXLE trick

An article in either the systems journal or the journal of RF&D described using BXH and BXLE to test 30 bits in succession. This trick is still valid and extends to 62 consecutive tests in AMODE64. It would be useful to have it in either the e...
9 days ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 1 Submitted

Support log

When running from a 3270, the ability to produce a log file is useful enough that I often void using IDz for debugging. I ould like log support in IDz.
9 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 2 Needs more information

fasttrack s390(x) architecture support for the remote - ss extension

s390x support for Visual Studio Code's ssh remote extension has remained open since 2022. VSCodium’s inclusion shows feasibility, yet the upstream VS Code work has not advanced since its assignment in 2024. This is now a blocker for teams moving m...
15 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Submitted

Native GitLab Runner for z/OS security

The security concepts of GitLab runners are mainly intended for distributed environments owned by a single application. With the introduction of the GitLab Runner for z/OS, which is a system shared by hundreds of users and applications, a new secu...

Improve Timeout Error messages on VSCode

While retrieving dataset members, if the operation exceeds the timeout period, the logs displayed in VS Code do show an error. However, they do not clearly indicate that the failure is specifically caused by a timeout. Instead, they only show the ...
19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 2 Under review

Configurable JAVA home path for zCodeScan

zCodeScan inherits the systems JAVA_HOME path that is present via profile or the invoking shell script. It would be beneficial to allow the configuration via either a zCodeScan environment variable, such as ZCODESCAN_JAVA_HOME or something in the ...
20 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Use local repository folder structure when uploading to USS from a multi-root workspace during User Build in IDz on VS Code

Currently, during User Build in IDz on VS Code for a multi-root workspace where the program being built in Repo 1 has dependencies on copybooks in Repo 2 in the same workspace, the copybooks from Repo 2 are uploaded to Repo 1’s working folder on U...
24 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Future consideration

Automatically clear IBM User Build console output when starting a new user build in IDz on VS Code

z/OS application developers moving from IDz (Eclipse) to IDz on VS Code are accustomed to the console log for IBM User Build automatically clearing between user build runs. In IDz on VS Code, the developer must now manually click to clear the log ...
24 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Future consideration