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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 support of named constant arrays

Please add support of arrays of named constant, e.g.: dcl titleOrderNumber(*) char value('Auftragsnummer' , 'No de l''ordre' , 'Numero ordine' ,'Order number' ); In cases like in the example above, the length of the longest value has to be taken. ...
over 3 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

COBOL-Program with no goback or Exit Programs

Writing a COBOL program without any GOBACK, EXIT PROGRAM or STOP RUN will produce a runtime error. It's necessary to get a warning by the compiler if none of these "BR14" are written
over 11 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

Debug EGL code invoked from any language

It would be nice to debug EGL webservices, invoked from another platform than EGL Rich UI. (e.g. JavaScript with XHR requests / SOAP or REST client /...)
over 9 years ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / Inter-product Integrations 4 Planned for future release

Request for a new function to control message rescheduling with deadlock case

We need a new function which enable us to cancel message rescheduling in a case of U0777 abend in an IFP region. When a U0777 occurs, an IFP region ALWAYS reschedules the message. Sometimes this specification leads to repeating U0777s if 3 or more...
over 10 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Message Queue Management 1 Not under consideration

IDz program control editor next/last should be in program order

When using IDz Program Control editor, the Previous/Next buttons should flow through the diagram programmatically.Currently, they move alphabetically/numerically.
over 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

DWC Event Rules Jobstream Triggering

Using DWC Event rules with FileCreate, when the user drops 3 files on the folder simultaneously, it triggers and adds 1 job stream in zOS controller but the other 2 error out in DWC with message - Error AWSZAP002E Submission of job stream "QTG1MAR...
almost 7 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

Ship as PDSE for performance

With C header files in PDSes they cannot be cached in Z/OS and every compile needs to fetch from disk. If these were in PDSEs they they can be cached and avoid the I/O. See https://colinpaice.blog/2020/11/23/avoiding-i-o-by-caching-your-pdses-it-m...
over 2 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add session timeout functionality to Debug Tool

Add an EQAOPT for the time (in some unit) Debug tool is willing to wait for a user action. This would allow to stop a debug session even if the user is unavailable, thus preventing a situation where CICS tasks are left hanging overnight and clutte...
about 7 years ago in Debug for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

ODP need support OMEGAMON for z/OS v5.5

Many mainframe customer is still using OMEGAMON for z/OS v5.5 and want to use ODP to stream Omegamon agent data to Elastic for dashboard and analytics purpose.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON Integration Monitor 0 Not under consideration

enhance discovery using taddm z/os dla

the zd&t tools should provide generalized capability to move/copy any subsystem from z/os to zd&t. This would be much easier if it used taddm z/os dla to do the discovery. In this way cics, ims, mq, broker etc etc could all be candidates f...
almost 6 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

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