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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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DB2 statements not directly with commit

At SQL scripts to attack DB2, we need something to just see the affected rows, or to preview the results of an update/delete/insert statement but not directly commiting the data, as at the Spufi, with some option to check in order to have this pre...
11 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Future consideration

Autoconnect preference by remote system

In Windows - Preferences - Remote Systems, the "Connect automatically on startup" property would be useful if we could choose which remote system we want to auto-connect, not all connections. It is useful to avoid logging into ALL connections in c...
11 months ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

Allow system shutdown phases in z/OS Proxy-managed systems

For GDPS managed systems, SA z/OS provides three distinct phases in the final shutdown processing that are defined using the special message id SYSTEM_SHUTDOWN message/user data policy item for the MVS Component entry type. This is not supported o...
about 5 years ago in GDPS 6 Planned for future release

Specified default Editor should be used for non extension data set

When a sequential data set that has no file extension is opened ona remote system, the zSystems LPEX Editor is used as defined application.Even when the zSystem Editor is defined as default editor for the filetype "*.*" (no extension), the extensi...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

RDz - Editors Compare results sharing and save

In RDz Editors , Compare is much better than what we have had on the Host systems SUPERC or File Manager compare , especially for the source code comparisons. We would like to have the ability to save the comparison results to a file, which we cou...
over 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

IDz: Handling of unreachable code in CICS HANDLE

Hello IBM, IDz and Software Analyser recognize an "unreachable code" where in fact there is reachable code: EXEC CICS HANDLE ABEND LABEL (ABBRUCH-DBCTL)NOHANDLEEND-EXEC The LABEL includes a section name (ABBRUCH-DBCTL) which is being marked as unr...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

ALLDEPS request may lock the corrent plan and cause delays

We have occasionally problem with the query of predecessors (Panel EAASOPSP) : SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURRENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION option 9.We have implemented the advised solution : a pop up panel reminding that the alldeps query is very (...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IDz Host Connection Emulator - allow mapping of Insert key

Users of IDz on macOS have no way to toggle Insert mode using Host Connection Emulator, because Apple does not support the Insert key. There is no Insert key on Apple keyboards, and the operating system even hides the key event from external third...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Not under consideration

PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / All components 2 Not under consideration

PDSE support for IMS (Steplib)

Currently IMS does not fully support PDSEs outside of MODBLKS, PGMLIB, SMPLTS, and SDFSJLIB. However the direction of travel for other Mainframe Components seems to be to move from PDS to PDSE with IMS not falling in line with this. This causes is...
over 1 year ago in IMS Transaction Manager / All components 1 Not under consideration

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