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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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Support for nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.

Open test Editor quicker

Our applications typically have many programs and big copys. This causes that opening the zUnit Test Editor is very slow. With a certain program it took more than 2 minutes when opening with IDz v15.0.5 client, and around 30 seconds with IDz v16 c...

Unit testing to be available on VS Code

Currently zUnit is only available on IDz. Test cases can be executed out of IDz but, test cases and recordings can only be created within IDz. This causes a lock-in in IDz, so this prevents using other IDEs like VSC or CodeReady Workspaces. We nee...

Support assertions 'lower than', 'greater than', 'different than', 'not null'

Currently zUnit only permits assertions ‘equal to’ in the testcases executions. We need zUnit to permit assertions of other types: ‘lower than’, ‘lower or equal than’, ‘greater than’, ‘greater or equal than’, 'different than' and 'not null'.This c...

Support for TYPES LOB (BLOB, CLOB...)

Support of fields with SQL types LOB (BLOB, CLOB...) .Example: 10 'A'-TXT-NACHM-GRND USAGE SQL TYPE IS XML AS CLOB(10000) OCCURS 1.
14 days ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Be able to use ZIIP feature with Log Data Manager.

IZPCA Log Data Manager feature is an ISPF/TSO application which needs to be coded in a special way in order to allow the caller environment to use Ziip processors. To avoid this inconvenience BATCH environment calling DRLPLC should be used instead...
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow specification of region type in IMS command - UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH)

Currently when we promote programs we stop and start all our message regions. Doing a UPDATE PGM NAME(*) START(REFRESH) returns a return code of 8 due to - CC 48 NOT ALLOWED FOR IMS RESOURCE. This means we would not be able to setup alerting on th...
8 months ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Multi session access Netview and Portal/GUI

With today we've activated the GDPS GUI and PORTAL to our 4 production sysplexes. Currently, users can connect to the GUI, but they can't be simultaneously connected to Netview via 3270 and vice versa. Enabling multi-session access would allow use...
5 months ago in GDPS 2 Not under consideration

Add parameters SYSTEMS to VPCEQURY on the G-Sys (GDPS GM)

We are in the middle of exploiting LCP. Every evening we perform an automatic IPL of the CVE (Cybervault Verification Environment) from the flashcopy devices to see if the data is readable and there are no issues. Before we start we want to check ...
8 months ago in GDPS 7 Future consideration

GDPS should recover from secondary dynamic pathing problem

After problems on the secondary Metro Mirror devices due to maintenance on channel paths, following messages occurred: IOS210I PATH RECOVERY INITIATED FOR PATH xx on CU yyyy REAS PATHING ERROR and IOSHS0010I DYNAMIC PATHING IS NOT INITIALIZED FOR ...
about 1 year ago in GDPS 8 Future consideration