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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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Additional Linux distributions support - CentOS

Looking at hosting zd&t in the cloud, it would be nice to have a no-cost option as far as OS is concerned. CentOS Linux is free - it would help keep costs down.
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

Support ability to compare a current segment layout field with a previous segment layout field.

File Manager supports creating templates that map segmented records. A segmented record is one where different portions of the record are mapped with different layouts. The template has to know how to identify which possible segment layouts apply ...
12 months ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide an option at the time of installing a component to not install tables where no reports are provided in the product.

When a component is installed give the customers the option to not install tables with no real usage or reporting built into the software and add to the documentation that these tables are just "nice to haves".
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 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

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

PARSE support for CSV files

Some of our systems are required to ingest CSV (Comma Separated Variable) files from other platforms. Presently we use SORT or other utility to convert the file to fixed format before passing it to COBOL for processing. In a few cases the COBOL pr...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 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

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

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

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