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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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Support for PL/I

Unit Testing currently has support for Cobol, but not for PL/I at the moment yet there is a huge number of clients using PL/I
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 1 Future consideration

GDPS dual legs 3 sites Metro Mirror extended to be 4 sites so as to attain HA in the DR data center as is in the Production data center

This extension will allow the regular swap between Production and DR data centers because both will have HA. Regular swaps and long stays in the DR center are supposed to be a requirement of DORA
10 months ago in GDPS 14 Not under consideration

Remote C/C++ Editor Development

Users have been asking to have two vertical rulers in the C/C++ Editor : 1 line for the end of the code (at 72 characters) and 1 for the end of the program file (80 characters). Moreover, as for the COBOL editor, a ruler at the top of the C editor...
22 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Submitted

z/OS Connect does not currently have a way to retrieve a list of the API requesters deployed in a server configured with OpenAPI3.

Currently, z/OS Connect EE provides functionality to list APIs, but it lacks a feature for listing API Requesters deployed on a z/OS Connect EE Server configured with OpenAPI 3. In contrast, with OpenAPI 2, API Requesters can be listed by sending ...
23 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

Portuguese language support

We have an opportunity at Banco Bradesco, which requires that watsonx Assistant for Z be able to interact with users in Portuguese. The expected information for support in Portuguese will probably be in 1H25. Would it be possible to bring this lau...
3 months ago in watsonx Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Enable tracing per API on zOS Connect OAS 3

Given that when enabling tracing (either binary or non binary), there's an impact on server performance, that affects all APIs deployed on that server, we'd like to have an option to enable tracing per api, so that when analyzing we'll only be imp...
3 months ago in z/OS Connect 4 Not under consideration

Add API REST upload-dir-to-pds to RSE API

Hi, It would be useful to have an API REST in RSE API which allows us to upload a directory to a PDS. This functionality has been implemented for rse-api-for-zowe-cli but it does not exist in the Java SDK. For now, we have to launch several comman...
5 days ago in z/OS Explorer / Remote System Explorer 0 Submitted

New Z Functional Entry to Clean Up "Expired" MongoDB Cursors in FCC7 Database

In the event that the FCC7 database becomes overwhelmed for requests of cursor access by some remote client issue causing record hold queues and essentially creating an "outage" to the remote mongoDB client. See Support Case TS017879344.
5 days ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Under review

We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ).

We need the correct SYSLIB concatenation details in DBB UserBuild “Build Report” (IDZ). Now its showing nothing and developer need to open the .log file need to check and its very time consuming. Since IDZ knows that COPYBOOK is picking from the r...
10 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

When we do DBB UserBuild in IDz, would like to select the respective “PROGRAM.cbl.properties” file from “properties” folder.

When we do DBB UserBuild in IDz, would like to select the respective “PROGRAM.cbl.properties” file from “properties” folder. This will help developers to save their tiem to search the individual artifact.properties.
10 days ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 0 Submitted

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