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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 FUNCTION MAX-LENGTH for the maximum length of self-referencing ODO structures

If a linkage section structure contains one or more ODO items resident in the structure itself, Enterprise COBOL provides no means of determining the maximum length of such a structure for allocation purposes, short of a numeric literal copied fro...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 5 Future consideration

Enhancing CTG Idletimeout paramater definition for Transactions or Group of Transactions

The Idletimeout parameter with dropworking specifies the period of time, in milliseconds, that a connection is allowed to remain idle. When the idle timeout has expired, the Client application is disconnected. Currently Idletimeout parameter can o...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Planned for future release

Consistent date format for display of dates in tables and filter criteria

The display of dates should be consistent across the UKO UI. - The dates displayed in UKO when listing keys and key templates are shown in ISO format YYYY/MM/DD. - The filter criteria for dates for keys and key templates are display in US format M...
8 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Japanese language support of FM eclipse plug-in

System: core banking systemActor: developers of core banking system applicationsDescription: MUTB(Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank) is migrating its developer tools to ones based on Eclipse (eg. IDz, ADDI, etc). And MUTB would like to use FM with eclipse...
almost 6 years ago in File Manager for z/OS 2 Is a defect

Please add the ability to see ENQ Models that is installed in the CICSplex

We are trying to not use the WUI, and to see ENQ models the only way we can do this today is using the WUI. Can you please add the ability to see see ENQ Models in Explorer.
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

Enterprise COBOL - Capacity to exclude line comments from LISTING and MDECK

Hi, As explained in requests COBOLVUE-I-319 and COBOLVUE-I-352, we want to be able to exclude certain comment lines both from the compilation Listing but also in the expanded source produced by the MDECK compilation option. The *CONTROL NOSOURC...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Not under consideration

AD - Program call graph enhancements

Enhance AD call graph visualization 1. Where it shows the program call from a JCL, show the step name which calls the program2. for Hogan calls, please show the Hogan Activity using which the call is made to program, DB etc This RFE is raised as d...
about 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 2 Not under consideration

SMP/E automation

We want the ability via a rest service/reset API to go somewhere on the web and get a list of fixes that are available for an SMP based product. There should be a rest endpoint that tells me the latest version and be able to grab it. Would also in...
4 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL - Add support for BINARY-CHAR, BINARY-SHORT, BINARY-LONG, BINARY-DOUBLE as alternative to COMP-5

Hi, The COMP-5 USAGE, (or TRUNC(BIN) compilation option), allows binary values ​​to be stored according to the entire storage capacity of the machine's internal representation. However COMP-5 is a constructor implementation and have portability...
4 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 3 Future consideration

Automated backup of IDz workspace

Automate the backup of IDz workspace.
almost 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration