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    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.
    3 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Debugger 1 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...
    9 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...
    13 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 0 Submitted

    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 ...
    13 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 2 Submitted

    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 ...
    14 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...
    18 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 ...
    18 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Future consideration

    Introduce a scope in zapp.yaml property group definitions

    With today's schema of the property group configuration, the search paths are applied for the entire language and cannot be scoped to specific files or folders. Applications may require scopes of where the property groups configuration can be appl...
    19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Future consideration

    Hide the "one-click" link that assigns the obsolete LPEX editor to 4 extensions in IDz "Preferences"

    Like many of your customers, we have taken note of the fact that LPEX is no longer a maintained editor : we have worked hard to assign as many different types and extensions as possible to other more suitable (and maintained) editors. However, we ...
    19 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Planned for future release

    Support merging of overlapping packages in wazideploy-generate

    Wazideploy-generate accepts multiple packages and creates a merged package input file for the deployment execution. Today, it does not manage overlapping package well, e.q. Outline: * Pkg A containing a SAMP.JCL deletion * Pkg B containing a SAMP....
    about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Wazi Deploy 0 Future consideration

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