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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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Provide additional commands in Remote Debugger

As we try to run DebugTool MFI and remote using the same configuration and command files we would like to have the following commands supported in RemoteDebugger:- COMMENT- CLEAR LOG- %IF- EVALUATE- LIST %dt-var- GO Also we would like to have a De...
over 9 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

USER DASD consists of multiple SMS Storage Groups but when you drill down, it's showing volumes of those SMS Storage Groups... Would like to show SMS Storage groups before going to the individual volumes.

When you define USER DASD groups (e.g. DATABASES), you can add that USER group by defining specific (or multiple SMS Storage Groups) that would make up that USER DASD group. Drilling down into the USER DASD group, it then shows the individual volu...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

Display current and diagnostic data of BUSED/BLOG

Z/TPF System needs diagnostic tools to display and analyze the status of Globals @@BUSED and @@BLOG, as well as the ordinal data for each processor. This data is very useful during activities such as processor de-activations, planned outages, File...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Reconciliation between Listing line number and Source line number

We are in the process of deploying the implementation of a DevOps approach on the mainframe. In particular, we want to implement code coverage and unit test follow-ups (automated tests). Market tools, especially the SonarQube tool, work with the S...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

COBOL Editor Toggle Comment

Toggle Comment function isn't able to return to previous state. Sample: If you use toggle comment (CTRL+/) for several marked lines and there was already a commented line in one of those lines, the result may not be the expected one. In that case,...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 4 Future consideration

make JSON-builtin non UTF-8 compatible

Whenever we use the jsonGet* oder jsonPut* function we always have to convert it from or to EBCDIC(1148) to UTF-8(1208) as we store and send this structure in Db2 Tables and on MQ and we don't want to convert it at two different places.Therefore i...
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

modify BAQSMFP to provide CSV delimited output options

Currently the sample library contains program BAQSMFP to format SMF123 T1 V1 and V2 records. Could this be enhanced to also produce CSV delimited files for V1 and V2 records to simplify consumption by other tools.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Provide easy method to do a migration from a very old zWS release (example 8.6) to a newer one (example 9.5 or 10.1)

Currently, program EQQICTOP cannot be used to migrate FROM certain releases to other RELEASE. For example you cannot migrate from 8.6 to 9.5 in a single run of EQQICTOP, but you can migrate from 8.6 to 9.3 using an invocation of a 9.3 level of EQQ...
11 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Incomplete tooltip for COBOL variables

In a COBOL program you have a long list of variables. For example this one: 1 DLI-FUNK. 2 GU-FKT PIC X(4) VALUE "GU". 2 GN-FKT PIC X(4) VALUE "GN". 2 GNP-FKT PIC X(4) VALUE "GNP". 2 GHU-FKT PIC X(4) VALUE "GHU". 2 GHN-FKT PIC X(4) VALUE "GHN". 2 G...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Not under consideration

RFE request for CL/Supersession. allow a user to REORDER their menu and nothing else.

Hello,Our client would like to see an option where their users would be allowed to update / Reorder their menu without changing anything else. Like on the Modify screen (KLSMOD21) with fewer options. Or don't allow seeing the modify screen and all...
over 4 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

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