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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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SQL and XQuery Editor should "Insert spaces for tabs" as default

The COBOL and JCL Editor of IBM Developer for z/OS convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File. The SQL and XQuery Editor within IBM Devolper for z/OS does NOT convert tabs to spaces by default when editing a Remote z/OS File...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

ISPF ISRSUPC to permit FINDALL to work against individual PDS members

Add an MVS ISPF ISRSUPC/SuperC search option similar to FINDALL that works against discrete members of a PDS. ISRSUPC's FINDALL process option returns a positive match only if all SRCHFOR criteria are met. This works fine for a sequential file; ho...
over 6 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Other 3 Not under consideration

The explorer tool to display resource attribute as per defination.

The explorer tool should display resource attribute as per defination for consistency. e.g. avoid -1 to represent NO and so on.
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

PHASEIN Support for JAVA programs running under Liberty Profile

The versioning and alias processing options that are presently available for deploying new Liberty Profile JAVA bundles in CICS require changes to the pre-existing CICS RDO definitions, this is not something that is desired when promoting a new ve...
over 7 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Kerberos support for IWSz Reporting (DBOPT)

Currently IWSz requires user ID and password in DBOPT to enable Database connection to DB2 reporting database. We need to eliminate the use of password in DBOPT. Provide Kerberos support to DBOPT for IWSz historical reporting.
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add DUMMY and * support to DD Statements in zUnit

I recently spoke with Suman Gopinath and William Alexander about this. We have many programs at my shop that use the DD SYSOUT=* or DD DUMMY functionality of JCL. We do this for assorted purposes, whether it is creating a report or just wanting to...
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

CICS APIs to support COBOL Dynamic Length fields

COBOL 6.3 provides support for dynamic length fields. These do not work with CICS APIs
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

Additional functionality required for tagging products using "user defined fields" to be extracted by the Inquisitor

Most companies install IBM and ISV products on a single system in their environment (a product install and maintenance system). Then, using some process, propagate the product(s) on Sysres or program product volumes to other systems. Most companie...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 5 Future consideration

CTG Explorer - add heuristics for performance

We are using CTG Explorer to monitor the CTG Gateways. It would be nice to have The CTG Perspective include heuristic rules included in links, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-tg-zos/9.2?topic=assessment-investigating-poor-response-times https://w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Explorer 1 Future consideration

DBB API - Manage a return code for each MVSExec for a chaining sequence in an MVSJob

Hi, The MVSJob API allows you to chain MVSExec objects and execute them in sequence until an RC value exceeds the specified maxRC value. Sample from zAppbuild BMS.groovy: def rc = new MVSJob().executable(copyGen) .executable(compile) .executable(l...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

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