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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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Enhancement for IDz Account Number\SMF Tracking

Request IBM to introduce an enhancement to the RDz (IDz) software. The enhancement will be to allow the mainframe portion of RDz to perform the necessary internal system interactions (i.e. SMF records) that will allow an individual RDz user's reso...
almost 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

We ask for an new GEOPLEX Domain definition to support Three sites.

We use GDPS/MTMM and we need to support a true three site setup with three CECs and single lpars running on one of the three, but with GDPS support for having the LPAR moved between the three sites.We are basically looking for a solution as illust...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 12 Not under consideration

System Automation, add "members=yes" option to INGDATA

In System Automation for z/OS, add the "MEMBERS=YES" option to the INGDATA interface. This would behave the same as for the INGLIST command: expanding a passed APG name into its component members.
over 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Dependency scanner to use CSECT in BZUCFG to support when moduler-under-test is different from loadmodulename

If you perform zUnit testing on a program which is located in a load module which has a different name than the program name then DBB reads he BZUCFG incorrectly. The situation happens when testing statically called programs, or when the main prog...
about 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Structured Programming Macros: support parenthetical grouping of logical conditions via parentheses

Support for parenthetical grouping of logical conditions is currently only possible by using the ANDIF and ORIF operators. This is because the Structured Programming Macros do not support the use of parentheses to specify logical hierarchy of cond...
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 1 Not under consideration

HACP EE support for Thai codepage.

Due to JAVA applet and webstart will deprecate in JDK9. Customer want to change from HOD to HACP EE. But current HACP EE not support Thai codepage. Please consider to add support for Thai code page (838).
almost 2 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 3 Planned for future release

Javadoc for JZOS as JAR or ZIP

Make the javadoc for JZOS available in a method that can be imported into an IDE as a standard part of the Java order and install, such as a zip or JAR.
almost 8 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Provide functionality to view HEX format for a full screen.

Many of our applications rely on binary data and HEX bitmaps to be analyzed. ISPF allows for developers to see an entire screen of data in HEX format. IDz, does not appear to provide this same capabillity. This is hindering developers from migrati...
7 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

IMS Component partitioned by IMS_REGION

Currently we have many IMS regions and huge logs to be processed. It would be great if IZPCA provides a solution that we could process IMS logs in parallel with a entire IMS component petitioned by IMS_REGION.
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

CICS PA SIIS Usage removal

Hello, For an Healthcheck study, we were investigating SIIS activity in our systems. You can see IBM documentation realted to SIIS from the links given below. We realized that while CICSPA batch jobs were running the SIIS indicator exceed %10 whic...
over 2 years ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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