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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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IDz/Debugger: Debug Profile shall resolve procedures

Hi IBM, IDz / Debugger is not able to resolve procedures within Debug Profiles. This leads to wild guessing the correct step to be debugged within a procedure, that has more than one step and so either the first step will be tried to debug or you ...
about 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Time stamp in Canlog should be local time like Netlog

The Canzlog records records using the GMT/UMT time stamp. The Local offset is added after when browsing the logs. Would need to understand the benefit of storing the time in GMT/UMT as opposed to Local.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

CPSM WLM Enhancement

Customer needs an enhancement to the CPSM WLM Algorithm in order to improve the workload among the targets. The customer has a single CICSPlex running across two Sysplexes. The environment is large enough that it not possible to merge the existing...
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Add the hability to obtain ODO counter with the JSON PARSE statement

As of now, when the API we call return a dynamical JSON array, we need to declare a COBOL array with a large number of occurences in order to be sure to retrieve all the data with the JSON PARSE statements. But, in most cases, the json array will ...
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

Enhance API Requester resilience

To improve API Requester resilence with a tactic similar to Circuit Breaker pattern
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

remote console access /zVM

remote console access to the end user in IaaS provider use case when there is any issue for them to connect to the VM in regular ways.
5 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Future consideration

Make larger fonts available

With the advent of larger Personal Computer screens, it would make sense to allow larger fonts to be used. For example, I have a with a resolution of 1920x1080. If I want PCOM to use the full screen, the terminal window can take up the full screen...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Ability for Zos controller to push zcentric agent upgrades

This will assist in the ability to upgrade hundreds of zcentric agents easily as well as keeping the product as up to date as possible.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

User defined constants

Implement user defined constants using the COBOL Standard "Constant entry".
over 9 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

support for multiple MQ systems in OTMA destination descriptor TYPE=MQSERIES

For high availabity reasons we have configured 2 production lines in the same sysplex:CEC01-LPAR01-IMS01-MQ01CEC02-LPAR02-IMS02-MQ02Both lines are coupled by various product features.I1) IMS01 and IMS02 use the same IMS shared message queueI2) IMS...
over 3 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 2 Not under consideration