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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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Enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory

In large environments with many nodes it is possible for ITM to overrun the 31-bit memory allocation causing abends in Remote TEMS started tasks on z/OS. Please enhance ITM to use 64-bit memory as a means to avoid this memory overrun in situations...
over 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

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

It would be really useful to us to be able to parse dynamic JSON arrays into ODO COBOL tables, with the JSON PARSE statement giving us the number of actual occurrences filled. Ideally by automatically update the ODO counter. It would also be very ...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IDz (16.x) : Db2 for z/OS, DDL generation for the dependent UDF objects

Staring IDz 15.0.6 the DDL generation for the complex dependent UDF objects has been deprecated, this particular feature was working correctly until 15.0.5. In our site some appl. developers and DBA(occasionally) uses these features for their regu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

Batch load of Annotations

Provide a facility to load the Annotations DB in batch.
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Provide real time indexing for z/OS sequential datasets

I'm not sure which workspace is appropriate - please help find a home for this? We generate terrabytes of log and SMF data every day, but much of it is hard to retrieve because of the amount of data. Could we have a splunk like model of indexing o...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect V3 deployment

From my application developer: The current system allows me to deploy both the Service and the API directly to the z/OS Connect Server. There are opportunities to optimize the process.
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

save more eclipse view preferences

We're facing the fact, that some preferences for views are not saved when closing and reopening the IDz client. For example there are views that do keep the size and order of their columns whereas other views don't. Or there are views that have th...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 1 Future consideration

Please provider an Openshift version of the container. Docker / Podman are not permitted technology at the Bank.

Please provider an Openshift version of the container. Docker / Podman are not permitted technology at the Bank. This is the only way we will be able to run ADDI containerized.
8 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Delivery Intelligence Extensions 0 Future consideration

SYSMDECK: Flag Begin and End of COBOL code which has been included by COPY or EXEC SQL INCLUDE

In SYSMDECK output of the new COBOL compiler (V5), we see all COBOL code, which has been included to the source by COBOL COPY or EXEC SQL INCLUDE.The orginal COPY statement is modified to a comment and could be considered as BEGIN of copied code -...
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 8 Not under consideration

Allow modification of minItems in API Toolkit while defining a service

This is a request to add an advanced option to the z/OS Connect API Toolkit to allow a consumer to choose/set the minItems value during a service creation. This setting would force the api toolkit to generate schema that force minItems to 0, inste...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

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