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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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Want the Push to Client to work for version releases

Nationwide needs a mechanism to push RDz product updates out to clients. We used push to client to install RDz v8.5 when clients were running v8.0.3.2 and this worked great. We thought it would work as well when we went to v9, but were just notifi...
over 10 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 3 Not under consideration

Increase the Maximum Size of the IRLM Lock Entries from Its Current Maximum of 1024 MB lock entries.

Currently we have a large number of false contentions within our IMS data sharing group, and we have increased the LTE value to 256 which causes us to reach the Maximum size of 1024mb.(256 * 4 Byte Entry = 1024mb) We need to be able to increase th...
7 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Under review

Automation to import workspace settings between versions of IDz

Thru this RFE, request IBM team to consider providing an option that can help to migrate settings from past work space to the new work space. In the current world, we recommend develops to either 1) make a copy of their existing work space and use...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

COBOL Comparewith does not distinguish case differences in keywords and strings.

It would be advantageous if the COBOL Diff (compare with - each other) would distinguish case differences in places where they don't make a difference vs where they do make a difference.Example: * "MOVE" vs "move" does not make a difference at run...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

True length of DSECT

There should be a method (perhaps a new parameter) that would cause the "length" attribute of a DSECT to return the actual size of the dummy section, rather than simply returning a value of 1.
over 8 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

Gradle support

Gradle support as part of DBB would bring the build capabilities closer to the rest of the industry. By supporting Gradle existing Gradle plugins for pipelines could be used. Having DBB as it's own build process continues to make it just different...
about 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Not under consideration

TWS IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) should also show ZIIP usage in Joblog statistics

We are using TWSz to schedule production and test jobs. TWSz includes a IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) which also writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics is CPU usage. For users to see the real usage of CPU resources the user also needs to know...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

When i change Super session Global Trigger to use '/' in KLSGOTO, we have problems editing JCL. See case TS003047864

We are in the process of migrating CA-TPX software to CL/SuperSession. In this process, at the client's request we are trying to maintain similarity with what we had in CA-TPX.Customer wants to use / to navigate between applications so we set the ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 5 Not under consideration

Provide an appliance form factor for zVDT

Shared Services Canada (Government of Canada) is planning to use ZVDT for thousands of developers. This would allow for easier management of the ZVDT images with their hybrid cloud solutions
7 months ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Future consideration

Add PDFSPOTR to OGL/370

PDFSPO was added with PQ43723. That APAR was closed in 2000-12-11. I suggest adding PDFSPOTR to OGL/370 (similar to AFPRSC)
7 months ago in Printsw / Other 1 Not under consideration

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