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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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Add "Associate Complete Program" to the RSE

In z/OS project view, "Associate Complete Program" appears when a user right clicks on a PL/I Include file or a COBOL copybook.But it is not available when a user right clicks on these types of files from the RSE view.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

ADDI: Disabling logging on the client if no settings exist

When I start a new workspace and no settings for ADDI are set in the preferences, then the log is written full with trace information. In the workspace and in the product itself no tracing settings are set.Not only the performance suffers but also...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 1 Future consideration

Python and PL1 integration interface

Provide an interface to call PL1 modules from Python (and possibly vice versa). The interface shall support the passing of parameters and ideally works in both directions (Python calling PL1, PL1 calling Python).
over 3 years ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3 Future consideration

Use metadata such as DFDL to generate C structures and assembler DSECTs

With DFDL being both language agnostic and extensible through namespace based attributes and annotations, attributes and/or annotations could be added to indicate the name and optionally, data type, to use when generating such artifacts as well as...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add database fields for DWC reporting

We are currently planning to replace a homegrown system which creates TWS reports, with DWC reporting feature. However, we are missing a mandatory field from the Current Plan z/OS DB2 archive database, which is the AD Owner ID. Our current system ...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

TCPIP Secure Socket

We are wanting to convert from NVAS as a Session Manager to IBM CL/SUPERSESSION. It has been determined that CL/SUPERSESSION does not support Secure Sockets
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

No spaces after brackets by IDz COBOL formatter

Currtently the formatter (CTRL+Shift+F) inserts a blank after each opening bracket "(" oder before each closing bracket ")". This is annoying and should be at configurable.
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Panel EQQAMTMP "not started action" cannot be used with "EVERY" repeating jobs

Jobs that are scheduled using the EVERY repeat Run-Cycle Option do not have an operation start/end time in the database entry. When the schedule is interrupted by some event and none of the jobs run for several cycles, it would be useful to have I...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance program call graph to not show unused Db2 calls referenced by commented PERFORM statement.

Currently in AD v6.0.1 program call graph shows unused SQL call statements of select/insert/update/delete from sections or para even if the calling PERFORM statement was commented out. Ideally those SQL calls are considered as dead codes as it wil...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Future consideration

Selection Panel for CALENDAR and PERIOD

IWS offers selection panels in database panel for WS, AD, OI, SPECRES, EDWA, JD, JCLVAR and RUN CYCLE. Two selection panels are missing: PERIOD and CALENDAR. In enviroments with hundreds of periods or calendars a selection menu like the other sele...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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