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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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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...
about 8 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

zOSConnect - Generating data format for integer

Hello,In zOSConnect toolkit 3.0.6.10, we have noted that for a data defined in PIC 9(n) in the copybook the generated data in swagger is like below :"contract_number" : {"type" : "integer","minimum" : 0,"maximum" : 99999999999999} ‎Without data fo...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CPSM Monitoring Tasks Threadsafe - CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED)

Enable the CPSM Monitoring Tasks to run as Threadsafe; running on an Open TCB, CONCURRENCY(REQUIRED). Currently, they run on the QR TCB; and the sampling and occupancy of the QR seems significant, impacting the normal business transaction applicat...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of Code Review in z/OS batch mode

Performance of Code Review in Batch needs to be improved. Today the performance is not sufficient. Each time a new JVM is started. When it is running as part of the build it is critical to ensure throughput and cpu consumption.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 3 Not under consideration

When adding internal processor with EQQAMOSL, the UI should allow searching by job name

When adding internal processor with EQQAMOSL, the UI should allow searching by job name Currently, it only allow operation number to be search which is really impractical.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 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...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

load Business Rules from external source

We want to load business rules from an external source and have ADI preform the initial linking to code source using the names/terms/keywords in the loaded Business rule. We would also like ADI to identify whether the code was link through the aut...

Add Business rule discovery support for ASM/PLI

We need Business rule discovery for (at least) Assembler

Display deployed ApiRequesters in zOSExplorer plugin

In the zOSConnect EE plugin in Eclipse(zOS Explorer). Please show the existing apiRequesters for the zCEE server. The admin api(s) for retrieving is already there( /zosConnect/apiRequesters/ ) etc...?
over 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

CICS - Change MCT parameters with online command

Good afternoon, Please check the possibility of chaning the MCT parameter via online command, in flight, without the necessary of stop/start of CICS that is currently needly.
over 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Future consideration