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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 'Debug Configurations' option does not work on JCL that is based on JCL procedures that has more than one step

We have found out that when using ‘Debug Configurations’ option ‘z/OS Batch Application using existing JCL’ we cannot get it working when JCL itself is based on JCL procedures if there are more steps in the JCL.
almost 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SYSDEBUG to fully support OPT(2) or OPT(3)

When the PL/I compiler is performing optimization, it has the ability to move statements in the resulting executable. When this happens, the backwards traceability to the actual written source statement is lost. The information is avaiable in the ...
almost 5 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to execute procedures in Snowflake and other plugins

Email from customer: Do you know if it should be possible to execute procedures in Snowflake (From DWC/IWS ) ?? Like this : call COMMON_DATA.SP_CREATE_PRODUCT_TYPE_MAPPING_VIEWS(); Contacted PlugIns team: The procedures cannot be executed, in plug...
12 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Compiler support for +80 character lines

With the release of the IBM Z Open Editor for Visual Studio Code, more IBM COBOL is edited in an editor not limited by 80 characters.We request an option to the z/OS COBOL compiler, to be able to read COBOL code without a limit of 80 characters.An...
almost 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to filter z/OS syslog, in order to send only selected messages to subscriber

Customer requested the possibility to filter log messages from z/OS syslog, in order to send only desired MSGids to a subscriber instead of managing all the stream.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

GUI usability improvements for UKO

We need to provide the UKO authorisation roles to a group of users with little knowledge of key management. They need a tool that is easy and intuitive to use. So the GUI needs to be clearer. I think it would be very useful if users of the UKO GUI...
6 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TAD4z report on SW release level and EOS

It would be great to have release reported in numeric formats so it's possible to quickly create pivot table with version overview (currently it's a mixture and not only numbers - MULTIREP TADZRGL1 TADZRME1 TADZRNA1 TADZRNE1 TADZRSE1 - Discovered ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 6 Future consideration

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints

Health checker for z/OS Connect Endpoints.
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Pass Business data from abending transaction to CICS policy EP adapter

In Policy system rules abend transaction. Offer a CICS container where a CICS transaction business application can put data, like customer id, which could help investigate an abend. The container should be made available to the EP adapter transact...
almost 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Provide meaningful error messages for z/OS Connect and API toolkit problems

Currently z/OS Connect provides for a lot of configuration errors, RACF and Unix System Services problems neither an error message in the JES Job Log nor an error message in the messages.log. Often the only way to get an impression of what may be ...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration