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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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DRF XF - Function to verify all recovery assets for a time range, and give report at individual asset level

In DRF Extended Functions I would like a new feature that would allow me to give a time span, either a date range, or ideally a number of days in the past, on either the VERIFY or HCHECK function that would confirm each recovery asset for the enti...
over 2 years ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Widescreen for BIDI characters

The option - Optimize for Widescreen is available Only for SBCS codepage display sessions not for DBCS or BIDI. Our users have been requesting such an option for many years and we finally thought that with version 15 we would have the option to gi...
7 months ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 2 Future consideration

Capacity figure for LCP captures

Would be good to have a capacity used figure for each LCP capture in the GDPS LCP panel. Would help with capacity planning and also give an idea of the amount of time required for a restore. Could either be capacity per capture or a running total ...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 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...
about 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Missing functions in COBOL

To determine the size of an array, most programmers use a constant and check the index against the constant. As an alternative compiler option SSRANGE can be used, which is not very performant.It might be a good choice to have functions which retu...
over 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 3 Not under 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

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 ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 6 Future consideration

Debug: ignore an instruction permanently without stopping

This is a reopen on RFE 150425 as it was misunderstood and closed as "delivered". Please add a way to permanently ignore an instruction during a Debug session. The command JUMPTO doesn't help as it stops the debugger and needs to be entered each t...
over 3 years ago in Debug for z/OS 0 Future 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...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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