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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 zHyperwrite for VSAM and VSAM-RLS files in SIT

We're looking to implement zHyperwrite on our system, it's already active for DB2/MQ, and we will soon deliver the APAR (UJ92354) for vsam part. Following this documentation : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=performance-zhyperwrite It'...
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Create SMF79.15 records when IRLM TIMEOUT value is exceeded but before IMS LOCKTIME is

If LOCKTIME is set in the DFSVSMxx member of the IMS proclib, the creation of SMF 79.15 only occurs at the same time as a 3310 abend for environments other than IMS batch. If SMF 79.15 records are created when IRLM TIMEOUT has been exceeded regard...
over 1 year ago in IMS System Services / General System 2 Not under consideration

Allow calculation of "OCLASTC" variables for months in the future

Currently, we can calculate the last calendar day with OCLASTC. From time to time it is needed to calculate the last calendar day of +1M or even more. According to these documentations, it is not valid to just calculate +1M to OCLASTC and the beha...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Not using 'USING' but working with adresses

We found out, that we only have the variables of the linkage section, that were transferred with PROCEDURE DIVISION USING … In the Test Case Editor. The functionality in our programs is different. There is no USING, we use the so called ‘Versorger...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

PLI-Support for specifying an expected value for a return statement such as RETURN(Expression)

The zUnit test case editor does not allow specifying an expected value for a return statement like RETURN(Expression).
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for nested programs

We have some Cobol programs in which nested programs are used. Unfortunately, this is not currently supported by zUnit.
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Open test Editor quicker

Our applications typically have many programs and big copys. This causes that opening the zUnit Test Editor is very slow. With a certain program it took more than 2 minutes when opening with IDz v15.0.5 client, and around 30 seconds with IDz v16 c...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Unit testing to be available on VS Code

Currently zUnit is only available on IDz. Test cases can be executed out of IDz but, test cases and recordings can only be created within IDz. This causes a lock-in in IDz, so this prevents using other IDEs like VSC or CodeReady Workspaces. We nee...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support assertions 'lower than', 'greater than', 'different than', 'not null'

Currently zUnit only permits assertions ‘equal to’ in the testcases executions. We need zUnit to permit assertions of other types: ‘lower than’, ‘lower or equal than’, ‘greater than’, ‘greater or equal than’, 'different than' and 'not null'.This c...
about 1 month ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ETT Trigger Feature

A lot of different companies I´ve talked with have problems with excessive ETT Triggering where there are so many triggers you go over the length of your current plan. I think it would be very appreciated to have some new kind of ETT triggering fe...
6 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration