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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 Evaluation in IBM ADDI

Product IBM AD/ADDI Requested functionality: a more detailed analysis of SQL statements.Currently the evaluation is not considering nested statements.
over 5 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

DSGVO

If you open files on the MVS-System and close the IDE, the files are *not* recovered after restarting it. Tabs are open but without content.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 1 Not under consideration

Allow changing the number of lines when loading with pdsUtil

When reloading a PDS member on a ZDT disk the source and target must have the same number of rows This is blocking when you have to customize a PDS member by increasing the number of rows you can not reload this member.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 2 Not under consideration

LPEX /ISPF key bindings

Please make the F3 key map to close the editor area instead of "Open Declaration". For experienced ISPF users the F3 key is ingrained as save and close. Consider remapping the Open Declaration function to something like Ctrl+O.
over 11 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

support linux alias nics

the zd&t tools do not allow a Linux alias nic to be used as a destination address when defining details in the web guy. The tool auto-discovers the nic name such as enp0s31f6 but doesn't auto-discover the one I have to use (alias nic): enp0s31...
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Not under consideration

IMS VUE Inclusion Parm

IMS implementation of VUE (Value Unit Edition) licensing requires a new FMID be applied/accepted, and an ALL gen performed. The presence of the FMID in the dlibs/dzone generates the system as VUE - with no parm to override.We need to support both ...
over 5 years ago in IMS System Services / Installation and Configuration 1 Not under consideration

Obtain a utility like pdsUtil for de sequential DATASET

ZDT comes with a pdsUtil utility that allows PDS modification out of the run of the ZDT instance.That is, it allows the modification of PDS directly on the image file of a disk.We have the same need on a sequential file.
over 5 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 4 Not under consideration

cicsdp process sleep for ever after it reaches the maximum retries and have to restart cics region for ITM KT8agent connect

If the ITM Kt8 agent is not available, cicsdp process sleeps for ever after it reaches the maximum retries.The customer has to restart region to make cicsdp to reconnect to ITM kt8 agent. It is current design.
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

SYSTEM AUTOMATION TO BE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN PARENT TASKS THAT START A CHILD TASK WITH THE SAME NAME

There are applications should as WebSphere Message Broker (WMB) and Control-O, where the applications starts multiple secondary tasks with the same name, but different step name. This makes is difficult for automation to monitor and manage. Automa...
over 11 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 5 Future consideration

Sonarlint plugin to have option to work with code preprocessor

Our cobol codes goes to a preprocessor to convert to native cobol. Can preprocessing be added to the Sonarlint plugin?
over 5 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

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