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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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Push to client the association between MVS Files of a Remote System and a Property Group

We have different Property Groups for each environment, with the environment copys and dclgens libraries defined in the SYSLIB. To the MVS Files of each remote system we can assign a property group, but this relation is stored in the workspace ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 4 Future consideration

Introducing Local Working Storage (Valid only inside a Section)

Hi, it would be great, if COBOL would allow local variables which would be defined into a COBOL section and are valid only in this COBOL Section. This would bring a huge benefit making COBOL programs much more structured and reducing the working s...
almost 2 years ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Screen size in the Remote Connection Emulator

In the new IDz ver 16, you cannot have a screen size of 62x160 in the Remote Connection Emulator. This is something we use and would be great to have.
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 0 Functionality already exists

API toolkit - API Requestor capability

Currently the toolkit provides little or no support for creation, generation or deployment of API requestor services. In tandem with API's with multiple services and complex / large data structures this leads to consider devt overheads using the t...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

HA setup for zAPM in Kubernetes/OSE environment

The current zAPM Implementation is not designed for HA (Active-Passive) setup. The current setup when installed will immediately start querying the configured AppDynamics controllers and is not suitable for passive setup. A HA setup will help with...
3 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration

Default "Open/Browse" setting when opening members in a PDS

It would be useful for there to be an option under the properties of a library to set the default "open" action for its members. For example, within development libraries, users can set the default action to "Open" members when opening members. An...
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Remote System Explorer 0 Under review

Provide a parameter to turn off DPL retry processing in CPSM when DPL fails with NOTAUTH

Provide a parameter, such as DPLRETRY=nnn, to allow us to specify how many times to retry a request. This could also be implemented as a YES/NO, but it may be reasonable to retry in a few regions (DPLRETRY=5) in case the security error can be reso...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Umbrella data as an additional column in CICS Task History Summary

Kyndryl Support Sagent Lending client and they need these features to support their LoanServ application / clients
7 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 0 Future consideration

QA Checks in the z/OS Connect EE API3 designer

Problem Statement : One of the risks of the bottom-up approach is that CBL software engineers create API's which don't adhere to ethos of what a good API should look like and behave. Abstraction can be a 'remote' concept to some m/f developers !! ...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Have FCWITHDRAW check if volumes are online

When running a script to take a TESTCOPY, the first step is to do a FCWITHDRAW of the existing flashcopy. If a system is active using this TESTCOPY, this will cause I/O errors and may cause the system to crash. The TESTCOPY CAPTURE runs, but it pe...
3 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration