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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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DBB: C and C++ compile support including ErrorFeedback

Currently only PLI, Cobol and Assembler compiles with ErrorFeedback are supported in the latest DBB version of IDz16. For the programming languages C and C++ there is no standard support. A custom implementation in Groovy for the C and C++ compile...
almost 2 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Future consideration

Set return codes for INGRCRDX when editing

The ISPF EDIT service provides return codes which provide guidance as to whether a data was saved or not: Return codes 0 Normal completion; data was saved. 4 Normal completion; data was not saved for one of these reasons. • No data changes were ma...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Dedicated ISPF Client Gateway configuration for DBB

Today, DBB's API for TSOExec and ISPFExec use the default system wide ISPF Client Gateway configuration. When the build framework has specific requirements on the configuration, such as the Db2 library on the STEPLIB or using the interactive gatew...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under consideration

Deleting a segment should be automatically followed by its deletion in the -LS of the Data Structure

Hi, Deleting a segment must be followed automatically by a remove of it from the -LS Lines of the associated Data Sctructure, just like the creation of the segment automatically adds it to the -LS Lines of the associated Data Structure. This is wh...
over 1 year ago in Rational Programming Patterns 1 Not under 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

Integration of informations about the Boost Class, Speed & zIIP Boost in table KPMZ_LPAR_T

Integrate three columns in tables KPMZ_LPAR_T from SMF70FLA to specify the Boost Class and if Speed or zIIP Boost is active during the current interval : BOOST_CLASS ==> IPL / SHUTDOWN / RECOVERY (From SMF70FLA Bits 13 - 15) 001: IPL 010: Shutd...

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

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

Update CEGN transaction to support Password Phrases

CICS has a sample "Good night" transaction called CEGN that is intended for juse if a region is configured to allow users to be timed out after a period of inactivity. However it only prompts for a password not pass phrase so is not in keeping wit...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

we have a large project with about 8.000 cobol sources. Trying to make software analyzer baseline crashes with java memory errors. Make it possible to create baseline for big projects

We want to make a baseline for the entire project so we can use this baseline for analysing cobol sources and do not get all problems over and over again.
3 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Software Analyzer 0 Under review