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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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Rexx syntax highlighting in IDz

IDz LPEX editor while editing rexx code also not able to recognize double quotes spanning multiple lineFor example - ISPEXEC "LMCOPY FROMID("COPYLIB") TODATAID("SONCOPY")FROMMEM("COPYNAME") TOMEM("COPYNAME") REPLACE" This is perfectly valid statem...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Not under consideration

New parameter for IMS APPL class validation for OTMA messages

Using the IMS APPL class in RACF it is possible to control the authority of users who attempt to logon to IMS. In my customer’s shop the IMS APPL class is active and all personal userids are authorized to the IMS APPL class. But there are other ty...
over 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Not under consideration

Switching between transactions to debug is no longer possible in the new version of Debugger

A test user has registered many transactions, as sometimes one transaction is debugged and sometimes the other. In this case, however, only one transaction should be debugged. With the newly installed version of the debug tool (V16.02), it is now ...
4 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IDz - Remote z/OS File Search - Search Concatenated Data Sets

Remote z/OS File Search enhancement: When multiple Data Set Names are specified in the Remote z/OS File Search dialogue, please allow for the ability to request that the search treat the datasets as a concatenation of datasets instead of searching...
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 4 Not under consideration

MainView Support for Instana on Z

My client is using MainView for resource monitoring in their IBM Z systems, instead of Omegamon. Lack of integration between MainView and Instana on Z is blocker of deploy for Instana on Z at Halkbank.
8 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 1 Not under consideration

Change IMS Catalog Definition Exit DFS3CDX0 to make it more user friendly

DFS3CDX0 is used to provide settings and attributes of the IMS Catalog to Batch application programs.It is an alternative to code “xxx” in the JCL of batch jobs for referencing to DFSDFxxx Member in IMS.PROCLIB. Currently all parameters from DFSDF...
about 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

AD - Program call graph enhancements

Enhance AD call graph visualization 1. Where it shows the program call from a JCL, show the step name which calls the program2. for Hogan calls, please show the Hogan Activity using which the call is made to program, DB etc This RFE is raised as d...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

SMP/E automation

We want the ability via a rest service/reset API to go somewhere on the web and get a list of fixes that are available for an SMP based product. There should be a rest endpoint that tells me the latest version and be able to grab it. Would also in...
4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Automated backup of IDz workspace

Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

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