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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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Add Open Perform Hierarchy from Show In > Data Elements view

Open Declaration and Occurrences in Compilation Unit are available in the Data Elements view. Open Perform Hierarchy needs to be added.
over 9 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 3 Not under consideration

Support the mounting of Keystores in the ZosConnect Custom Resource (CR) schema

Why is it useful? (IPIC is used as an example to illustrate the requirement, but the requirement extends to any Keystores that may be required by a z/OS Connect API server.) IPIC security is an important consideration when deploying z/OS Connect A...
11 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Debug Tool should report the Jobname and Jobnumber in message +EQA4037I

It is very difficult in transaction systems like IMS MPP's, to find out the messages (i.e. Displays) if the user does not know in what region the IMS transaction was debugged. Therefore the Jobname and Jobnumber would be very helpfull
about 11 years ago in Debug for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

zCEE Add custom header in request pre-invoke interceptor

We were looking at having the preinvoke request interceptor ADD a new custom header to the flow, that would contain the value of System.currentTimeMillis(); it could contain other values as well for future needs. On the post invoke; read the heade...
over 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Copy row when editing DB2 table

Add a copy/repeat function to copy an existing row in a table when using the Data perspective to edit a table. Suggestion: Right-clicking on a row and have the option to Copy row.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 4 Not under consideration

CLIST

Support CLIST
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Continue commenting when inserting a line break within a comment

Hi IBM, when you edit a comment in a COBOL source in the COBOL editor and you hit ENTER (aka you insert a new line), the new line should be automatically a comment line. At the moment, the cursor is being positioned on the beginning of the text in...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Future consideration

Give a user authority to work with definition GDG-s, but not give access to files and data.

We are trying to follow the “trend” and have infrastructure as code and store everything in our SCM system. One of our source types are sources for define, alter or delete of a GDG-entry. So what we store is only the definition of the GDG. The ide...
almost 2 years ago in Common Services Library for z/OS / All components 1 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Support for concatenation operator &

We want the "&" concatenation operator, as described in the ISO COBOL standard, to be supported by the IBM Enterprise Cobol compiler.This operator must be able to be used everywhere where a literal is authorized:- declaration of a VALUE in a d...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

Refresh projects during Eclipse authentication

When authenticating on Eclipse, the list of projects should refresh automatically, without having to right click on the Explorer window.
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

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