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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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Message when RUNMODE is reached.

I would find it pretty useful if SA would give out a message when a RUNMODE level is succesfully reached. Means, that if I change the current RUNMODE and all the affected applications are in the correspondent state, a success Message would be very...
over 2 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Not under consideration

Java CICS debugging requires a dedicated JVM

Debugging a JCICS application requires a dedicated JVM. This means that a JVMSERVER cannot be shared by multiple developpers and requires as many JVMSERVERs as developpers/environments.. We would like to be able to share the same JVMSERVER between...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

OMEGAMON/IMS REQUIRES API MONITORING

IMS, when combined with z/OS Connect, has the capability to support IMS trxs calling an API. The API request goes thru z/OS Connect to where ever the API is to execute. In the meantime the IMS trx goes into a wait, waiting for the API response. Om...
about 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 5 Future consideration

Add Choice of CodePage

When we go through the Personalize my Workspace wizard, a new page Set The Codepage would be really helpful rather than having to remember to change it later.
about 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Export 88 levels as JSON comments when building a Z/OS Connect API in Z/OS explorer

The 88 levels in a Cobol program and copybook contain very useful code that could very easily turn into comments when exporting. These comments would be helpful for downstream developers to know constraints on certain fields
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Faster navigate to main nodes (like MVS, z/OS UNIX files, JES)

The tree in the remote systems view can get very big very fast if I have many entries in the main nodes (like MVS, z/OS UNIX files, JES ...). This means I may have to scroll a long time to get to a main node. I can use some key combinations like c...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 1 Not under consideration

zunit usermod detects DB2, IMS, LE, MQ that are in different zones

Today there are no automatic way to detect that the DTR, LE, IMS or DB2 modules has been updated in the other SMP/E zone. We are using multiple zones independent of each other and the solution that IBM offers does not work for us. solution: Zun...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 2 Not under consideration

Enhancement suggestion for Mass Update functionality

When performing a Mass update to OPR - FEEDBACK LIMIT, can there be a filter criteria that allows to specify a DURATION time? In our installation we use duration times to determine what we want our Feedback limits to be. So for example, all jobs t...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - ON EXCEPTION clause for SET procedure-function-pointer TO ENTRY entry-point

To avoid an abend at runtime, the instruction "SET procedure-or-function-pointer TO ENTRY entry-point" should have an "ON EXCEPTION" clause, as is the case for the instruction "CALL".The instruction "SET TO ENTRY" causes a loading of the program w...
about 5 years ago in COBOL Compilers 2 Future consideration

missing data access support for carma

working with carma elements in carma view/search . there is no option to use DATA access support,no hover, or content assist is suggested for any sql code in EXEC SQLstmt.
over 7 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 2 Not under consideration

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