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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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Enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4)

We need to enable a confirmation panel after the TWS panel EQQMEP1L (5.4) to complete a job with an error state. Currently, there is no post-EQQMEP1L confirmation panel that requires you to verify a job data before completing your job. Because of ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

IDz LPEX editor should ask if files need to be locked when the user start editing them.

When z/OS developer teams have the policy that files need to be locked when they start editing them. In the 'modern' editors this is asked as soon as people start modifying the source. That is the kind of behavior that we are looking for in the LP...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Integration of an automatic check after a build / make

The idea is the automatic generation of a check after a build or a make for the administrator of AD (in MS-DOS command and GUI AD Build Client).
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Support for SQL statements in in-stream data or control cards used by DB2 utilities in JCL

Tesco have JCL that executes SQL statements against DB2 tables via DB2 utilities. SQL statements are processed as SYSIN either as in-stream data, or in Control Card DSN. This information is currently not analysed, leading to incomplete information...
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Suppress Warning Message On Recall Of Datasets

The problem is with the warning message in IDz which tells the user this may be an SCLM dataset and asks if you want to continue. We don't have this message in ISPF and we would like to have the same behavior in IDz. So what if a dataset is under ...
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 6 Future consideration

Host Graphics support in SWT Beans

Host Graphics support has been added to HOD but it is also required in SWT Terminal for use by the Host Connect Emulator in RDz.
over 9 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Dependency software 4 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...
over 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.
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Not under consideration

Ability to group CICS regions together and start IA Collection process `by group`.

From a recent workshop for CICS IA with PNC · Customer has hundreds of CICS regions on their current environment and would like to group them into Dev, Prod and Application based regions. · Once grouped, customer would like to start CICS IA collec...
over 1 year ago in CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 1 Planned for future release

CICS APIs to support COBOL Dynamic Length fields

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

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