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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 new option 'FIND ONLY/REPLACE' in the IDz cobol editor

Hello, In the test IDz version (14.2.3.x or 15.0.x), there is a need to enhance find/replace option. When user wants to find and replace particular occurrences of a word, it wouldn't be possible in the existing 'find/replace' combination. For exam...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

IDz Software Analyzer should work with many Programs

In IDz you can select multiple Programs in the Software Analyzer Configurations. When you for example select "Analyze selected projects" for a Project with 902 Cobol Files you will get an error. Please see Ticket "IDz Software Analyzer could not p...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 1 Future consideration

Improved / Added new features on AD Audit

This RFE focuses on the display of the audit (Audit Service Web GUI). The default sorting is on the date with a sorting from the oldest to the newest. That is, the most recent operations of users are on the last page. It is not practical at all.Co...
over 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Message added with the sysout

Our request is at the NUMCHECK compilation option ... MSG versus ABD sub-option. When we put NUMCHECK (ZON (ALPHNUM), PAC, NOBIN, MSG), In runtime when the INVALID DATA is encountered, a nice message is added in the SYSOUT like for example: IGZ027...
over 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 5 Not under consideration

installation of AD should check for java 8 64bit

Customer installs AD 6.0 and has not pre-installed correct mode of Java 8 (it is not 64bit) ... the installation script should detect this and halt installation
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

To terminate a users sessions and return to main menu after 15 minutes

Under Session Manager, there was an option to terminate a users active sessions and return them to the main menu. This is a PCI requirement for a number of customers. However, since migrating to SuperSession the ability to do this has been lost. W...
about 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

ZDT WEBTool ability to update instances status

In some cases like : - Re-install the webtools server.- Migration problems- Servers restoration after disaster. We lost Target Environnement status ( ZDT emulator status, image Deployed,...) on the webtool server.Even if we have a listing of insta...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

SSRANGE suboption to check for a modified length resulting in a negative length

A new SSRANGE suboption is needed that should be useable also in production.This suboption should create extra checking code only if a "modified reference" (that modifies the default length of a variable) involves a variable value. In this case th...
almost 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

Improving the way CICS uses the global enqueues for ENQModels

We tried to implement an ENQ global (using ENQModel) but find out the response time for all the transactions using it increases significantly. IBM support told us the code managing this resource has a delay of 100 milliseconds between calls to che...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

ZOS Connect GraphQL Support

I have just made test on zos connect and I have a hugh structure in PL/1. Of course I can map everything to extra REST Services, but it would be great to just take the hole PL/1 structure and provide a graphQL API. Would be much less work.
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration