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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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ADDI Impact analysis report not scrollable

Impact analysis report is not scrollable - Customer has to click on arrows to see the report..
12 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

New extended mnemonics needed for branches/jumps following TMLL and friends

New extended mnemonics are needed for "branch/jump [not]mixed" instructions to be used following the newer Test Under Mask instructions. The older TM instruction never sets CC=2, so the older branch/jump [not]mixed mnemonics (JM, JNM and similar) ...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 2 Not under consideration

Forward API information to service.

Information defined in the api itself as properties such as api name, api version and base path can be needed in the underlying service application programs. Such properties of the api should be available to map into the data to the service.In the...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

manage multiple API pipelines within single zcee instance

within our test systems we have multiple environments that may service an API. Within each environment we may have multiple pipelines or levels.We would like to be able to reduce the potential zcee server footprint by being able to manage multiple...
almost 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

The cicsas process adds a mechanism to detect the availability of database connections

If the database restarts abnormally, the cicsas process needs to restart manually or restart the region. Otherwise, the first transaction processed by the cicsas process fails, resulting in a transaction loss. In addition, the cicsas process autom...
12 months ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Equal amount of IF / END-IF statements

Would be nice to have in Cobol editor syntax check or in software analysis a feature which calculates IF and END-IF statements. A warning or even error in case of not equal amount of those.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 4 Not under consideration

Change ASMA033I severity from 0 to 4

Our product requires 241 separate assemblies. When reviewing a gen, we take closer looks at any assembly having a non-0 completion code. ASMA033I errors currently are SEV 0. That means that they get missed when a GEN is reviewed. If they were chan...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 4 Future consideration

Permit named PUSH/POP statements

When the assembler reaches an END statement, and there remains unPOP'd PUSH USINGs, it issues ASMA138W . Well, in large complex assemblies, finding the unPOP'd PUSH or PUSHs can be rather a challenge. In my own coding, I have solved that by replac...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 1 Not under consideration

Fully support 32-bit EQUs (maybe even 64-bit EQUs as well)

The assembler's support of 32-bit EQUs is arcane, to say the least. Consider: EQU1 EQU X'80000000' EQU2 EQU X'80000000'+1 EQU3 EQU X'7FFFFFFF'+1 The EQU1 and EQU2 statements are fine.The EQU3 statement gets flagged with ASMA074E. I do understand t...
almost 3 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

Support for TRS-Files and XMIT in FileManager

FileManager should support datasets like TRS-packed files,(used AMATERSE or TRSMAIN).The Suffix (sorry for windows-like wording) .TRS should be an Indicator to present a "look-into" and/or the ability to unpack it.Also a packing-ability should be ...
almost 9 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 4 Not under consideration