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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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Missing of asynchronous mode for calls of parser or for other queries results in far too many freezes and white screens

During the edition of members, too many blockages appears (freeze, white screen..).They are problematics as they prevent the developers from doing their job. They can last several seconds up to several minutes.When they last several minutes, the o...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 4 Delivered

if the copy commend in eclipse so that low values in the middle of the data will not stop the copy.

There is a problem when coping from documents that have non display character - see attached in PMRm for examples
over 12 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 7 Delivered

jsonnonjavaprovider & Remote Tranid

It would be interesting to have the same behaviour when we use NOSOAP webservice with Configfile jsonnonjavaprovider, as the one we have when we use jsonjavaprovider or when we use SOAP webservices. When we use nonjava (jsonnonjavaprovider), CPSM ...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 6 Delivered

Add support for debugging with LangX in Cobol 6

A Cobol program compiled with the Cobol 4 compiler using the option NOTEST can be debugged using the LangX genedated from the listings. It would be very useful to enable this feature for Cobol 6 programs too.
over 1 year ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add Eclipse based Rexx editor

It has been about two yeasr since some one has requested this and got declined so I thought I would try again. Please add an Eclipse based Rexx editor. It doesn't need to do a lot. The base Eclipse editing actions, color highlighting, outline view...
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 5 Delivered

SSL Certificate expiration advanced warning in CICS

When an SSL certificate used in a CICS region expires, it can take time and sometimes a region cycle or other outage to update it. There is currently no warning message in CICS that an SSL certificate is about to expire.
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

JZOS Maven jars should throw exception for disabled functionality

IBM has made JZOS jars available on Maven Central for development and compilation. The functionality has been disabled in the Maven Central jars. Some or all disabled functions currently return invalid values e.g. null. If you inadvertently use th...
8 months ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 4 Delivered

Add connection reference property to CICS service provider

At JPM all CICS services defined with the toolkit have connection reference “catalog”, I suppose because of the IBM example application. I cannot change that, all services are created with that dummy connection reference. If I had to change it dyn...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE - Enable multiple RACF Groups to be assigned to Global Interceptors

Please consider allowing multiple RACF Groups to be assigned to globalOperationGroup, globalInvokeGroup, and globalReaderGroup. Currently you can only assign multiple groups to globalAdminGroup. Also would like a way to specify that anyone that ha...
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

z/OS Connect EE ARM support installation

Customers using z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition v3.0.53 need to install z/OS ARM feature manually. z/OS Connect EE supported ARM feature but ARM feature was not shipped with z/OS Connect EE install package. Customers using ARM feature with z/OS Co...
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered