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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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    Obrowse enhancement

    In z/OS UNIX, the obrowse command should be able to handle acii tagged files (e.g. UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1) in the same way as command oedit does.
    about 6 hours ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

    [IBM Enterprise COBOL V6+] Include in the DWARF information the CBL/PROCESS directives present in the COBOL source code

    Hi, When CBL/PROCESS compilation directives are present in the COBOL source code, they are correctly reproduced in the SYSMDECK output. However, they are absent from the source text included in the DWARF information retrieved by the -zt option of ...
    4 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Submitted

    [CDADUMP / dwarfdump] Option to extract the pure source code (without formatting)

    Hi, This may not be the best group to make this request, but it is related to the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler for z/OS. The -zt option of CDADUMP / dwarfdump extracts the source code of the program included in the DWARF options. This source code...
    4 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    [CDADUMP] Option to redirect outputs to files

    Hi, This may not be the best group to make this request, but it is related to the IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler for z/OS. The CDADUMP utility, a JCL version of the command-line dwardfump utility, allows you to extract DWARF information stored in a...
    4 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    Ability to Add New Application Level User Field to Existing AD in Workload Scheduler

    Description:Currently, when using the ADUSF option, IBM Workload Scheduler creates a new Application Description (AD) with the same name instead of adding the User Field to the existing AD. Additionally, ADUSF requires attaching the user field to ...
    3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Enhancements required in DWC’s REST API for IWSz

    1. Why are two separate TWS REST API calls required to retrieve the full job stream details? This approach is not recommended for DevOps practices. For example: Step 1: Execute the following call to retrieve the job stream ID:https://<DWC_Hostn...
    15 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Provide a supported method to return a COBOL or PL/I program's compiled SERVCE string to the program at execution time.

    SCLM's often store company-specific information in the SERVICE string to identify not only the date and time last compiled but who last compiled it and under what project identifier string. Currently the only way for a running COBOL program to ret...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration
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    TWS High Availability

    We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
    over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Allow UTF-8 (PIC U) and NATIONAL (PIC N) group and elementary items to MOVE to PIC X alphanumeric group and elementary items with automatic character set translation

    Currently Enterprise COBOL allows PIC X alphanumeric EBCDIC group and elementary items to MOVE to UTF-8 (PIC U) and NATIONAL (PIC N) group and elementary items with automatic character set translation, but the reverse MOVE is not allowed. There is...
    2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

    JSON GENERATE translate dash to underscore

    Dash is not supported in JSON Names in Java and other languages. JSON GENERATE default uses the COBOL name which usually includes dashes. It would be useful to have a phrase or option to translate all dashes in names to underscore. We have many la...
    about 2 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

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