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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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IDz: Add the "Open Member" function to the JCL Editor

When viewing/editing a JCL member with the JCL Editor, the Context Menu should support the "Open Member" function. This function is available in the Context Menu when viewing/editing a JCL member with the LPEX Editor but not with the JCL Editor.
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 2 Not under consideration

Sample code for zWS user exits (EQQUXnnn) should allow a TRACE for input parameters and return codes

For sample exit code provided in SEQQSAMP or generated from the exit workbench, it would help to be able to turn on a trace which lists the input parameters (normally pointed to via register 1) and the return code used to leave the exit, as this i...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Require the improvement of ZD&T Licensing errors/warning/messages when a ZD&T License Manager has been flagged as a clone

Currently, issues with ZD&T licensing are very difficult to diagnose for the ZD&T customer and even for IBM support. Especially when it comes to "cloned" License Manager servers. When a request file is generated (via request_license), I ...
over 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Not under consideration

Allow quick navigation in E3270UI by overtyping CICSPlex and Region name

In some E3270UI workspaces you can overtype the CICSPlex and Region name to allow you to quick navigate to data about other regions. This is not universally true, and on such case is the task history workspace (KCPTASH). Could you please add this ...
11 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for CICS / All components 0 Future consideration

SMU to operate with APIML

Launching SMU plug-in from ZOWE. We are running the SMU software as a Linux application in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). The ZOWE software is running as a Started Task (STC) on a z/OS LPAR. We chose to do this to save on general purpose CPU M...
over 2 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Future consideration

TXSeries for Linux code page support

Related to: Case #002565956Environment: TXSeries for Linuxlocale: ja_JP.sjis In case of using vendor extension characters in program source code and BMS map source, cicstcl/cicstran and cicsmap command failed.We know TXSeries uses iconv for code c...
over 5 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

GDPS provisions SAF controls for accessing Netview when Netview already has a SAF resource to perform this. This means there are now two resources protecting the same function

With the implementation of GDPS 4.7 and the steps outlined in Role based security, GDPS folks have provided the following profile GDPSADMIN.USERCTL.<domain_id>. This means that when role based security is enabled and GDPS 4.7 is initialized ...
3 months ago in GDPS 1 Not under consideration

Convert old Raster fonts into TTF fonts

I would like to see the remaining raster fonts that are in the PCOMM font list to be converted into True Type Fonts (TTF) to accomplish a few things: 1) This would allow enabling of the font change option on a maximinzed window (in line with what ...
11 months ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

Improved device messaging during CONFIG failure

During configuration processing of a region switch, we loaded a never used config before as we hadn't run in reverse mirror direction before. When we loaded the configuration, we received the following error message: 05:04:20 | GEOTRC AUTGEO3 MPMK...
almost 3 years ago in GDPS 8 Not under consideration

JSON PARSE error details

JSON PARSE error handling improvements - Expose Parse messages to application code. We continue to struggle with problem resolution when specific use cases cause unexpected results from web service calls, resulting in Parse failures. Displaying th...
11 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

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