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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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Adjust program mask to Java expectations around IMS calls to Java

When control is "in IMS" and an exception takes place, LE terminates the enclave with a U4036-1 without any recovery attempts as would normally be the case. Specifically, when IMS calls Java, the program mask should be as expected by Java--that is...
over 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Enhance INITCHECK(STRICT) for different types of used-before-set warnings

Given:INITCHECK(LAX) will issue IGYCB7311-W when a data item is completely uninitialized on all logic paths leading to that statement. INITCHECK(STRICT) will issue IGYCB7311-W when a data item is uninitialized on any logic paths leading to that st...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Not under consideration

CARMA support for Endevor long names

Our development team doesn't have any more access to ISPF, they develope their work using IDz. Recently we implemented zCEE (z/OS Connect) and we developed the promotion mechanism using Endevor (our SCM). The problem is that IDz CARMA don't suppor...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 1 Not under consideration

Specify relative time for Operation Not Started alerts

The Operation Not Started Alert/Action options were useful enhancements to IBM Z Workload Scheduler V9R5. But they can't be used in all scenarios. We have IzWS applications that run multiple times daily at random times usually event triggered (e.g...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support DFHAP1900 messages at PLT time

The SPI audit message DFHAP1900 is currently not supported until after CICS startup is complete (when the DFHSI1517 Control is being given to CICS message is written). Consequently, SPI commands issued by startup PLT programs (running under the CP...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Add capabilities to support JES3

There are several larger customers with JES3.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Anomaly Analytics with Watson 1 Not under consideration

Preprocessor should always run for included COBOL copybooks

In our property groups we have self-written COBOL preprocessors defined. If there are preprocessor statements in included copybooks they will not get resolved and therefore editor shows errors in the code. This is not the expected behaviour. If on...
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to XCF buffer processing

Enhance XCF Buffer processing used by DFHIRP for inter-region communication. At present it is possible to exhaust the pool of XCF buffers leading to recursive SVC dumps in DFHIRP causing broad system impact. The ability to specify the size of the ...
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

IDz - Extend dataset 'search' capabilities

Hello In RSE perspective, it is not straight forward search to list the files like how we usually perform in 3.4 ISPF listing. Ctrl + F doesn't help much, however there is a locate option that works a bit within the filters. But we think this sear...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 3 Not under consideration

IDz - Unsplit the program lines in the COBOL editor

Hello In the IDz test version (14.2.3.x or 15.0.x), if any component has unusual splitted lines of code in the source library, then formatting option in IDz editor doesn't unsplit the lines. Pls find a sample case as below ; ------Move tmp-x(2:4)t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

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