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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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Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.

Make VS Code as first-class code editor for major use cases of a developer.
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.

Make Early Development Testing possible for majority of the customer usecases (across different middleware like IMS, CICS, MQ , DB2 etc.
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.

Across the products capture usage metrics at the menu click level (without capturing any PI information) and produce reports for customers / IBM to understand the impact of our products in a developer’s life.
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.

Infuse AI into the products to auto-discover customer environment and auto-configure most of the setups during a product installation.
2 months ago in Test Accelerator for Z / Early Development Testing for z/OS 0 Under review

Cobol Editor should have the preference: Host Characters (like LPEX editor)

The Cobol Editor does not display non-displayable characters correctly. The LPEX editor does have the option to replace characters (LPEX Editor -> Appeareance -> Host Characters) . This allows us that for certain non-displayable characters (...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

Displaying files with non-printable or compressed characters with the LPEX editor

Related case: TS016645534 The LPEX editor does not print all non-printable or compressed characters in the same way, causing the data to be displayed misaligned. As seen in the attached files, from the terminal (indent.png) we can check that the d...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 0 Under review

(TPFUG/Visa) Add file access logging to SFTP server

Currently only user login activity is captured in the log under /tpfjam/ibmutil. Enhance this logging to also include file access activity at a minimum (who's doing what, when and where) as well as FTP commands if possible. Potentially include dif...
5 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add Kafka to Open Enterprise Foundation

The open source tool Kafka is increasingly becoming a common platform for Z tools. We know of Omegamon, Common Data Provider, IBM Z Anomaly Analytics. The idea is to add this therefor to the Open Enterprise Foundation product.
5 months ago in IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS 4 Under review

Add the ability to locate a specific job within an application schedule without the need to manually browse

When looking for a specific job in an IWS application ID you have to manually browse through the schedule to find the job your looking for. It would be nice to be able to enter an 'F <jobName>' command in the primary command line to go strai...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

zUnit need to support pointer item and pointer area as parameters of a sub program call

We cannot use zUnit for our BMP modules! We use IMS as our transaction manager, so the majority of our batch modules are BMP’s.Almost 100% of our modules use AIBTDLI.Almost all of our modules use the use the same (company) standard.After the AIBTD...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / zUnit 1 Future consideration

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