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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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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

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

TWS product development to support zcentric agents in a Natted environment

Need to be ableto support Zcentric agents in a Natt'd enviroment.
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 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

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

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

Newcopy of Liberty Application in CICS

In CICS V5.3. it is possible to phasein a OSGI bundle A Liberty application can't be phasein, that is proberly because the application need to be stopped and restarted to do the operation. It would be nice to have a newcopy function for this. beca...
almost 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 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

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