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    Support AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications

    Hello IBM, AMODE64 MQI calls from PL/I applications is currently not officially supported by IBM. However, 64-bits support already exist for C applications.Adding support for PL/I only requires simple updates to the CMQEPP copybook. Here is an exa...
    1 day ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    RSEAPI Add Support to Append Data to Files and Datasets

    Currently there is no API to append to existing files/datasets. PUT /content and/rawContent for MVS and UNIX only replaces the contents. This idea would be to add an optional request header that lets you choose between "replace" and "append" for t...
    1 day ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Submitted

    Reduce the amount of storage used by the JSONGet functions

    We see high cpu from LE 'Get a stack' from build in PL/1 JSONGet functions like JsonGetValue. Please reduce the stack used storage in the JSONGet functions.
    8 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

    Member Versions should not get Deleted When Copying from PDSE to PDSEv2 in IDz

    Case updated by IBM - TS020854199 26 November 2025, 09:12 AM CST - Severity 3 Case Title Member Versions Deleted When Copying from PDSE to PDSEv2 in IDz IBM Support Commented Hello Naren Thanks for opening this case. I have checked ...
    9 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

    We require the ability for IDz to support OAuth 2 authorisation code grants in order to access zOS Connect server instances.

    All use of basic auth to zOS Connect servers is forbidden due to security vulnerabilities in using basic auth over http. This means that developers are unable to connect from within IDz to any zOS Connect servers to query deployed services, deploy...
    15 days ago in z/OS Explorer / All components 0 Submitted

    RSEAPI/RSE should not alter the 'referenced date' of datasets when they are listed via z/OS Explorer (Eclipse/VS Code).

    When users list Datasets through Eclipse/VSCode, the "referenced date" for all listed datasets are inadvertently updated to the current date. This happens even though no dataset was browsed, viewed or edited. This behavior has a significant impact...
    4 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Future consideration

    Allow specification of constants in the VALUE clause of the DEFINE ORDINAL statement

    The compiler is currently flagging the following code /* HTTP status codes */ DCL 01 HTTP_STATUS_CODE ,05 OK BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(200) ,05 CREATED BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(201) ,05 ACCEPTED BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(202) ,05 NO_CONTENT BIN FIXED(31) VALUE(203...
    23 days ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    support for EzNoSQL in PL/I in same level as in COBOL

    because if you want to use EzNoSQL in a mainly PL/I shop
    5 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    Enhancement to the PL/I jsonGetValue built-in function to add a selector option to jsonGetValue which would allow specifying a condition for selecting an array element. The function would then only copy those elements that satisfy the condition.

    For example, given the JSON document below, it would be great to specify we only want the item with "TRAINING": "Y" copied over to the PL/I structure. JSON_DOCUMENT: { "PASSES": 3, "DATA": [ { "NAME": "Mather", "ELEVATION": 12100, "TRAINING": "Y" ...
    8 months ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 5 Planned for future release

    New configuration setting for the IDz GUI "z/OS UNIX Files" to restrict the recursive deletion of directories

    With the IDz GUI “z/OS UNIX Files” it is easy to start a recursive deletion of Unix directories. IDz will give you a warning before. If you confirm the whole tree will be deleted. In native Unix System Services it is possible to use an alias for t...
    about 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer 3 Future consideration

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