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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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AMODE31 output from AMODE24 input - Missing source code

I have been introduced to the ABO tool with a view of improving performance of existing compiled COBOL programs without the need to recompile. What would really be very helpful would be if the tool could be enhanced to include the ability to outpu...
about 8 years ago in Automatic Binary Optimizer 2 Not under consideration

Install of HOD 12 on i5OS no longer included in the License Program Products

After installing Host On-Demand V12 via Installation Manager on i5OS, the License Program Product list does not reflect that HOD 12 is installed. Previous versions of HOD did update the LPP on AS/400 platform and this was removed for HOD 12. This ...
about 8 years ago in IBM Host On-Demand  / Front End 1 Not under consideration

Mac OS support

Request for support of the PL/I Compiler on Mac OS.
about 12 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables

Please create API to extract details from ADDI SQL tables for following requirements. 1.Identify and extract the datasets accessed by the given job list / transaction list / webservice list /CICS main program list from cross dependency projects .2...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Move module INGTXFPG to SINGMOD2

Hi SA development,Please move the new INGTXFPG module that comes in SA v3.4 to SINGMOD2 library as default.Since the SINGMOD2 library must be in the LINKLIST as documented in the SA manual.Including the new module INGTXFPG in the SINGMOD2 will ens...
about 12 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 4 Future consideration

Support of SQL Merge statements in the make / build process

Complex merge statements in the SQL command are not yet supported in the make / build process.
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

Support new Endevor features in RDz CARMA

There are a number of Endevor new feature in v17, particularly the "AUTOGEN". RDz CARMA should also support this option.
about 8 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host/Distributed SCM Integration 4 Not under consideration

Control generation of language structures with CICS web service assistant

For compatibility reasons an application should be able to be invoked by CICS web services and MQ. From the architectural point of view the contract for the invocation should be a schema/WSDL.When a language structure for COBOL is generated from t...
about 8 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

DWC Display of Script/JCL

But now, our users is pursuing the job log displayed from DWC to include the script/JCL of the job itself as in SCRPTLIB or script.sh in job output folder. Is it possible for you to: 1. Update the code of DWC to include the script.sh to the out.lo...
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add support to CICS Explorer to allow summary action for columns in a view.

The CICSPlex SM Web User Interface allows users to add summary actions for columns in base tables. The CICS Explorer views need to also allow the capability to perform a summation action on columns in a view returned by CMCI. The default summary a...
about 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 2 Not under consideration