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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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JSON PARSE error handling messages filter

Cobol Developer coding the JSON parsing and associated Error Handling For JSON PARSE statement, provide a mechanism for the application code to indicate which JSON-STATUS conditions are acceptable and which are to be considered errors.
about 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

RDz: Setting .hce defaults before the file is created

We run RDz using a virtual server that all users start their instances of RDz from. When a user creates a new connection the emulator defaults to use unsecure telnet on port 23 and these settings are saved in the workspace .hce file. We'd like an ...
almost 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

ADDI is missing to show procs and control cards

TD Bank decided to use ADDI 5.1.0.4 and they were investigating about the file layout and control cards impacted. ADDI shows the impacted JCLs listed along with the step names and Programsalone. However, ADDI does NOT show any Procs and/or control...
almost 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 5 Not under consideration

Change value for Pacing gate dynamically

Hello, we would like to have the opportunity to dynamically change values for our Pacing gate we have defined for our Liberty servers since we have started to use System Recovery boost when we ipl our systems. I want to increase the value during i...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Ability for zcentric agents to flow through a gateway to the Z Controller

This will allow client connections to the zController with zcentric to directly connect through a NAT IP (gateway) and not via a DDM. This will simplify set up and connections with the zcentric agent.
10 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6R2+ Support REPLACE directive with ALSO phrase

ISO/IEC 1989:202x WD 1.00 describes the ALSO phrase for compiler directive REPLACE. This is currently not implemented in Enterprise Cobol 6.2. ALSO will enable us to use more than one REPLACE statement in Cobol source without overriding the replac...
almost 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Allow additional custom actions to DWC "More Actions" menu

Currently DWC only allows for one Custom Menu (url) to be displayed in the "More Actions" menu using the twsObjectDoc section of TdwcGlobalSettings.xml . We have a requirement to have more than one Custom Action for jobs/jobstreams to point to mul...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Please consider adding a monitoring field / 110 record field to track CPU time consumed by TCB switches caused by code not being threadsafe

Considering that an effort to migrate a customer's suite of applications to be threadsafe can be difficult, time-consuming, and therefore expensive and risky, it would be very beneficial to have a mechanism the help objectively quantify the potent...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Program name in PUT DATA / PUT LISTwithin CICS runtime

When running PL/I programs under CICS it is sometimes necessary to activate PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs to analyse problems within applications.The output of PUT DATAs or PUT LISTs is prefixed by Terminalid, Transactionid and timestamp. The program nam...
over 11 years ago in PL/I Compilers 4 Not under consideration

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