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license cobolscript interpreter on your platform. http://www.cobolscripting.com

small cobol interpreter tool for cobol programmers.
16 days ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 0 Submitted

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Submitted

Add possibility to create director when creating unit test

When creating a new unit test you usally want it in another directory in the repo than the source (i.e. /test/<program> instead of /src/cobol) It would be an enhancment if you are not forced to create the <program> directory first but ...

Test case editor unreadable with Dark theme

The test case editor is unreadable when switching to dark theme in IDz which is used by many developer Black text on dark grey background means you have to select the text to read it

Allow copying the contents of files containing null characters

Currently, when a user copies the contents of a file by pressing ctrl+shift+a and then ctrl+shift+c, the expected behavior would be to get the entire contents of the file in your clipboard, likely replacing any nonprintable whitespace characters w...
about 1 month ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Submitted

ASID needed as condition item in IF-THEN statement

With the IF-THEN statement we often process messages that are intercepted by NetView Automation. To evaluate the message, there are several condition items available. However, if a specific task that has been started several times under the same j...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Submitted

Feature to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER, EXPORTEr

We don´t have the option to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER and EXPORTER in the UKO. It would be interestig to have this feature
about 1 month ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

More information needed in zAIOps prebuilt skills README.md in wxa4z-skillpak.zip

The current zAIOps README.md in wxa4z-skillpak.zip just one line "# aiOpsIntegration". If zAIOps README.md can provide more detailed introduction about the prebuilt skills for AIOps? The z/OS MF prebuilt skills README.md has more and better introd...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

source control enablement

Enable source control integration for applinx applications and/or repository. The ability to only export and import the entire repository and the lack of exporting only differences without manually exporting (specific entities) from the Designer l...
about 1 month ago in ApplinX 0 Submitted

Allow manual setting of the ANSIBLE_HOST parameter

When the OpenStack Inventory plugin is used against ICIC the ANSIBLE_IP gets set to any of assigned IP addresses for the VM at random. For multi-interfaces VMs we should be able to set the preferred interface to use for ANSIBLE_IP.
about 1 month ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted