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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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Add Originating Program field to CMF

Add the Originating Program (OPROG) to CMF data, similar to Originating Transaction (OTRAN), Originating ApplID (OAPPLID), etc.
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Enhance CICS policy to capture all CICS abend task

Currently, CICS policy system rule (rule type = Transaction abend) can only capture UNHANDLED abend task. If application program has EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND logic to handle abend, the abend will not be treated as an abnormal end of a task and will ...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

PL1 support Business Rules Discovery

NRB has mainly PL1 programs and would like to discover business rules

User Customizable ATTN key handling

Default handling of the ATTN key requires two presses of the key to pass ATTN through to the application. We would like this to be an option, possibly in the global profile, to be able to set the default action to allow the first press of ATTN to ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Improve TSO/ISPF administration interface to use IBM-standard LIBDEF / ALTLIB facilities - remove current requirement for STEPLIB / LOGON PROC customization

The current IzPCA admin-function is restrictive, requiring TSO LOGON PROC and/or hardcoded STEPLIB (for IzPCA and Db2 environment)
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

ZCEE Provider support for unbounded Arrays

ZCEE determines an array only based on the OCCURS clause and looks like we have to provide a boundary (max length) for the arrays like in the copybook structure below which means that we cant allow unbounded arrays like in the case of CICS web ser...
over 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6+ - Disable RULES controls locally

Hi, The RULES compilation option allows to perform compile-time checks on the proper use of data formats. We have activated the RULES compilation option to educate our developers on the proper use of data formats, and we are satisfied with it. How...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 4 Future consideration

zUnit to 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...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Endevor v18 function support in IDz 14.1.5

The new feature for IDz concerns the CARMA bridge interface to Endevor. Endevor release 18 allows for 256 character element names for USS support. The current CARMA interface only allows for 10 characters. The CARMA interface should support the ne...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 1 Future consideration

Provide NEXT/PREV Viewing Functions for IP Trace Records

IP Packet Trace Navigation and Viewing Improvement.
almost 9 years ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration