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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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Support IMU Explorer functions in IBM Developer for z and IBM Z Open Editor

IMU Explorer is a stand-along Eclipse utility and for customers using IDz or IBM Z Open Editor, it provides a disconnected experience for end users. Developers have to manage the connection and configuration separately and the workspace is separat...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Migration Utility for z/OS 2 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

IMS Sysprog

IRLM deadlock report does not include a Unit of work (UOW)or Unit of recovery (UOR) token for the transactions involved in the deadlock.Application programmers often request for input messages of the transaction when investigating the deadlocks. B...
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Diagnostic Utilities 2 Not under consideration

Longer Message/User Data CODE 'Value Returned'

The Value Returned from Messages/User Data CODE entry is currently 30 characters. This function would have been really useful but this isn't enough characters for the data we need. Can this field be expanded. Maybe to 159 to match the User data le...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Native InTune package and customizations

Creation of a native Intune deployment for IBM Personal Communications including default settings and customizations. We would like to use the native deployment methods of Microsoft Intune to deploy and automatically update PComm. Example would be...
11 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Possibility to save in a file the list of all dependencies by running it in batch or save the list under ISPF.

We have the need to export the list of all dependencies of an application in a file. Currently this list is only available under ISPF (Option 9 ALL DEPS of SELECTING APPLICATION OCCURENCE AND OPERATION INFORMATION) We'd like to have a WAPPL comman...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow IPCONN USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) parameter w/o SSL for IPIC-connected CICS running in different intranet sysplexs

IPIC Connections between CICS regions running in different LPARs active in trusted SYSPLEX's, require secured SSL connections if the IPCONN USERAUTH(IDENTIFY) parameter is specified for the IPCON resources. This is documented here:http://www-01.ib...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

Convert the EYU9XSTR Exit to be Threadsafe
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Adding filtering capabilities to the TDI datasets

In an SMU widget you can choose different Omegamon datasets, but there is a difference between the TDI datasets and the original datasets. If you choose the TDI datasets there are no filter options (filter on 'Managed System Name' and no 'Prelimin...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future 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

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