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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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Aggregate neighboring statements other than control statements into one box in flowchart graphs.

The current flowchart graph often becomes to busy because all the statements are displayed.It would be better for users of AD to understand the structure of a program if neighboring statements other than control statements (ex if, evaluate, etc) c...
over 6 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

PL/1 web connectivity and web service support

Currently, no web connectivity can be set up from PL/1. As a consequence, we cannot call web services from PL/1 batch programs on z/OS.We prefer to have some builtins to set up web connectivity and to call web interfaces described with WSDLs, XML ...
over 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 3 Not under consideration

Tags member of PDS by IDZ

IDz "tags" every members with the user of STC (RSEDx) so the dates of last use are not correct as all members of the PDS have the same date, with the same user IDZ must use ISPF modules/calls rather than reading the directory block info directly
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Abbreviation of the directive >> IF constant-conditional-expression

The ">>IF constant-conditional-expression" directive could support a simplified expression: >>IF compilation-variable-name - this expression would be true if: (compile-variable-name is defined) AND (its value is equal to B'1', or an in...
over 6 years ago in COBOL Compilers 4 Not under consideration

CICS EXIT POINT to INTERCEPT or ALTER userid

We are running CICS TS 5.2. We have an issue that some of our application transactions are being initiated without supplying a user ID, therefore CICS region userid or CICS default user id is used for those transactions. This is not compliant to o...
over 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

Email attachments are not saving as separate documents while ingesting Emails through ICC 4.0.1.8

Case ID - TS000885259Product - IBM Content Collector 4.0.1.8 We are doing a mailbox ingestion where we use "EC Extract Attachments" in the taskroute . However if the attachment itself is an email /.msg file , the attachment is not getting saved as...
over 6 years ago in IMS Enterprise Suite / Explorer for Development 0 Not under consideration

Retain existing API files in server in case of issues with deployment for an API

If redeployment of already existing API is unsuccessful, previous version of API present on z/OS Connect server also gets deleted. Refer attached documents for details.
over 6 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Is a defect

VFAFILL=NO support for more macros

The new parameter VFAFILL of the macro FINDC (apar PJ46019) is a very good thing for the RECOUP. We would like to use it on some of our processes but it only exists for the FINDC macro. Could you provide us with the VFAFILL parameter on the other ...
about 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Planned for future release

zAppBuild should provide a way for deleting the build datasets and the collections which are no longer needed

DBB does not have API to delete datasets, but the JZOS API has. From Joseph Taffe-Atkins5/UK/IBM I believe this is worth an enhancement request in zAppBuild to provide a way for deleting the build datasets and the collections which are no longer n...
about 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 1 Not under consideration

Provide I18N/L10N gettext APIs for XL/C on z/OS

A system level, common, industry standard, platform independent, service is needed to perform internationalization/localization translation services on text strings when running on z/OS. This is needed for both applications compiled to use Languag...
over 6 years ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / C/C++ 2 Not under consideration