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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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Implement a BMS map editor/viewer

Costumer is interested in have a VS Code based BMS map editor, so they can do the same edits they are able to do on Eclipse. Costumer is moving to VS Code and needs the tool to have at least the same capabilities as Eclipse based IDE.
4 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / VSCODE 0 Submitted

Add Opensearch as a ZCDP subscriber

Currently, OpenSearch cannot be used as a ZCDP subscriber, but we would like this functionality to be implemented in a future ZLDA release.
about 5 hours ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 0 Submitted

One of our customers is complaining about the inefficiency of IBM Business Events Unordered Dispatch Queue using a default 32,000 byte buffer for their larger Event Message Feeds which exceed the default buffer length and results in MQGET/decompressing the message twice. The customer is planning on turning on Compression for IBEV.UNORDERED.DISPATCH.QUEUE; however, they are requesting we increase BEVQ_DEFAULT_BUFFER_LENGTH in bevq.cpp:

Inefficient behavior: BEVQ allocates a 32000 byte buffer to read the messages, if the buffer is not large enough the MQGET has decompressed the message it then returns MQRC_TRUNCATED_MSG_FAILED, and leaves the message on the queue. It then realloc...
1 day ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

We don’t have insight into all the data in AWS so we don’t know what the highwater maximum message sizes before/after compression and mqm we are sending out are.

Regarding average and largest uncompressed message sizes, I nor the customer are aware of any existing tools available to gather this information for IBM BEV dispatch queues. Additionally, while I was on vacation the customer requested in November...
1 day ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

Support Japanese Monospaced Fonts in Headless Code Coverage PDF Reports

When generating PDF reports using the Headless Code Coverage collector with the Japanese locale (-nl ja), the system currently uses a proportional font (such as IBMPlexSansJP). We request that the tool be updated to support a monospaced font for J...
4 days ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IZPCA / COGNOS NEW COST REPORTS TFP WITH MONETARY VALUES BASED IN MSU

Many customers wants to know how much money they are paying by LPAR, WORKLOAD and SERVICE/REPORT CLASS using TFP – Tailored Fit Pricing model. Nowadays, IZPCA/COGNOS has cost RESOURCE ACCOUNTING reports based in monetary values (cost of CPU second...
2 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 8 Under review

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...
7 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
12 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Submitted

Fault Analyzer should output Japanese items with DWARF option.

Our customers have upgraded Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and are considering using the DWARF option to enhance their application failure analysis tools, such as CEEDUMP and IBM Fault Analyzer. However, DWARF option as a new feature in Enterprise COBO...
4 days ago in Fault Analyzer for z/OS 0 Submitted

Request to Increase the Maximum INTENT LIST Length Beyond 64K in IMS

We would like to request that the maximum allowable length of the INTENT LIST in IBM Information Management System (IMS) be increased beyond the current 64K limit. During ACBGEN processing, we encountered the DFS2558I message indicating that the I...
18 days ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Under review