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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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Provide a way for Developer to input a 'hex' key in a search string.

we have unique client identifiers which are 4 byte character representations of a 8 digit hex value. Eg. key_field_name : X'BE336244' This is the key in a wide number of tables and databases here, so is used quite commonly in queries. Issue When I...
8 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Not under consideration

Remote Connection Emulator - Screen Size 62x160

Screen size 62x160 has been support by other emulators such as Host Emulator and HOD. Most of our workstations have large screens. With 62x160 setup, we can view so much more of mainframe data in 1 screen than scrolling right and down. There are p...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Ability to disable mouse scroll wheel

We have users that are accidentally hitting the mouse wheel and it deleted data have entered into the current screen. They do not use the wheel function and would prefer to disable it.
about 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 3 Planned for future release

allow more than 1 DASD to be specified in RTE_PDS2_VOLUME for PDSV2 datasets

The current RTE_PDS2_VOLUME parameter only allows "ONE" VOLSER to be specified as the target DADS for allocating PDSV2 datasets. But, (1) not all customers are using SMS to allocate PDSV2 datasets (2) in case if customer installs a full suite of Z...
5 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

GDPS should automatically clean up from destructive repair operations on storage devices

We recently had a "B" box outage that required support to utilize the CST process that removes all in memory structures including copy services. This created orphaned secondary pairs in our GDPS Metro Global session. Currently within GDPS we can o...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Set the jobstep return-code for DFHSIP to a higher value than zero when a JVM server in CICS abends

After an abend of JVMSERVER (timeout) during startup of CICS, CICS ends with RC=0.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

IWSz Upgrade with zero downtime

Last weekend we migrated IWSz from V9R3 to V9R5.The complete migration took about 1h to complete. Due to the unavailability of IWSz there was some impact on critical batch processing with frequencies smaller than 1h. Today's business requirements ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Configuration of DBB in IDz similar to ‘zapp.yaml’ in VSCode.

We would like to use a defined ‘zapp.yaml’ in IDz as it is configured in VSCode. So it would be much easier for the user to use the build. It is quite complicated to setup the user build for a normal host user. And it would be perfect to let the d...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Support Left/Right Control Key Mapping for Remote Connection Emulator for Improved Adoption of Migrating User from Host Connection Emulator

I have created Remote Connection Emulator configurations and the connection is working, however, there is a challenge I am facing to remap the enter key to be the CTRL key. I can see in preferences Remote Connection Emulator is mentioned but the k...
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Add support for HWIREST to JZOS

BCPii is an important z/OS specific API that currently supports several languages but NOT Java. Having this support within JZOS would make java applications relying on HWI communications (such as monitoring applications or system automation tasks)...
over 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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