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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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Keys or passtickets to connect DB2 server

Currently DB2 server is connected/configured using service id and password in dashboard (-> Configure -> Servers & security tab -> Relational database server). There is requirement to replace DB2 server credentials (service id and pas...
11 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Support Endevor v19 on CARMA plugin

We saw in the below documentation that the supported Endevor version under IDZ v16 CARMA plugin is 16/17/18: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/developer-for-zos/16.0?topic=workspace-from-ca-endevor-software-change-manager-scm " Supported Releases of CA ...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Future consideration

The ability to call an OSGI Java Program from z/OS Connect

it would be great to be able to make a API using OSGI through CICS instead of having to set up a middle man PL/I or COBOL program to make this call. There are a lot of use cases, PassTickets being one of them, that work better in Java but in order...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

PL/I compiler for Linux (or Windows)

Besides z/OS and AIX the PL/I compiler was also available for Windows several years ago. This allowed us to use nearly the same source on z/OS and on Windows. We used the PL/I preprocessor to adapt the source for both systems. Instead of Windows a...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration

Implement support for CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz do not support CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax. For example: The Cobol editor will flag the function EYUVALUE(OK) with "Unable to resolve reference to EYUVALUE".
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Support EQQMINOx to be invoked via LIBDEF (run zWS dialogs for different versions in parallel)

Unfortunately EQQMINOx is NOT supported to be invoked via LIBDEF because of the way that EQQMINOx is loaded -- there is an old DOC APAR concerning this which is STILL true even today-APAR= PK53014 SER= DD DOCLIBDEF FOR ISPLLIB DOES NOT WORK FOR LO...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

navigate to remote system data sets from local projects

It would be great to navigate to remote data sets from a local JCL. Nowadays with all the projects migrating to git, all our projects are local, and of course, all our JCLs are local. For that reason, we would need to navigate with ctrl click in a...
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 2 Future consideration

New SAF call to protect execution of GDPS planned actions. Repeated.....

We do now execute scripts from TWS via the GDPS REST Api interface. That increases the importance for protection of our user scripts. User scripts are named and defined by the user(me) with our own naming conventions.If you have access to execute ...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

API to add annotations to components

Today, we can only add annotations to components using the AD Analyze client. Having an API for annotations will help enrich the data captured from source code with data that is maintained outside of the source code like Application name, supporti...
5 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Spark method to more easily use datasets

There is no simple way to feed dataset data into Spark through the shell which is a common method of invoking Spark. A function should be developed or a script made available that would be an official IBM method to use datasets with Spark.
5 months ago in IBM Z Platform for Apache Spark 2 Future consideration