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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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Reopen data sets after restart

Local files are reopened after restarting Eclipse automatically, remote z/OS file aren't. Please add an option to have also the last z/OS Data sets / members opened, that were open upon shutdown.
about 2 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Not under consideration

File system logger on Api Requesters

Actually file system logger interceptor are available only for ApiProviders and Services. Is it possible to add this function for ApiRequesters ?.
almost 2 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Future consideration

Show inserted CICS elements as part of the source code COBOL listing

When compiling with the COBOL co-processor, when CICS elements DFHEIBLK and DFHCOMMAREA are not coded by the programmer they are inserted by the compiler into the LINKAGE SECTION and as parameters on the PROCEDURE DIVISION statement.The elements d...
about 7 years ago in COBOL Compilers 9 Not under consideration

redefining functions in header files - do it the right way

When functions in header files need to be redefined (e.g. to get new default behavior),this should NOT be done by just renaming them with a simple '#define func_new func_old'.Instead, macros should be used like it was done for older XL C/C++ compi...
9 months ago in C/C++ and Fortran Compilers / AIX 4 Not under consideration

Provide support to switch UID in zExplorers/iDZ

Hello, under zOS we more and more have to deal with USS services and zFS-files. As a zOS systems-programmer not everybody knows in deep the possbilities and features of USS. Often we need to switch to UID 0 to do specific file-changes and this is ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 8 Future consideration

Switching between transactions to debug is no longer possible in the new version of Debugger

A test user has registered many transactions, as sometimes one transaction is debugged and sometimes the other. In this case, however, only one transaction should be debugged. With the newly installed version of the debug tool (V16.02), it is now ...
4 months ago in Debug for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Changes in the property files (application-conf) should be picked automatically

If there any changes in any .properties file in application-conf folder, should be picked automatically by DBB user build like CPY/COBOL the dependency files
about 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Some SuperC options should cater for longer lines

A number of SuperC compare options are currently rejected for datasets with an LRECL > 256: ISRS013W CERTAIN "DO NOT PROCESS" OPTIONS ARE REJECTED DUE TO LI NE LENGTHS > 256. OPTIONS RESERVED FOR PROGRAM SOURCE DATA. ISRS016W MOVE LINE DETEC...
almost 4 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Add environment variable or equivalent, dummy DD (?), such that a PLIDUMP call can check the existence of the envvar and call Fault Analyzer as part of its processing.

In much earlier versions of Fault Analyzer a zap was provided to the PLIDUMP code such that IDISNAP (Fault Analyzers dynamic call interface) could be invoked as part of a PLIDUMP call, without having to modify the application code. This is no long...
about 2 years ago in PL/I Compilers / z/OS 2 Planned for future release

CICS Explorer Resource view - Quick filter on the Region

In the CICS Explorer resource view, you can apply quick filters on the displayed columns. But you cannot apply a quick filter on the Region Column.
almost 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

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