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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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Detect column of THEN and ELSE in IDz Code Review for COBOL

One of our installation rules for coding "best practice" COBOL programs requires that the programmer codes the (optional) THEN keyword and the (required, if applicable) ELSE keyword in the same column as the corresponding IF keyword. Statements fo...
about 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 1 Future 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 ...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Other/Unknown 8 Future consideration

Solicitamos que EXX con seguridad pueda contemplar un ‘APPL=nombre_aplicacion’ de tal manera que el aplication name profile sea consistente e idéntico en las distintas LPARs y de esta manera se pueda utilizar la autenticación con passticket sin problema”

Disponemos de dos LPARs en nuestro entorno de Producción (EX83 y EX90) y queremos utilizar una VIPA distribuida de acceso a estas LPARs. Queremos montar nodos EntireX (EXX) con seguridad (en cada LPAR) y utilizar passticket para autenticar a los u...
5 months ago in EntireX 1 Under review

Do a Logical Or on the target of an Execute instruction

When the debugger uses the in-storage copy of the Execute target, it usually only displays the first byte of the operand and sometimes displays the wrong operand entirely. When the Ex target is an SS instruction then the length can only be determi...
9 months ago in Debug for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow larger variable length fields beyond the current limit of 32767

We’re proposing an enhancement to z/OS Connect’s OPENAPI2 to better handle larger variable length fields. Currently, to accommodate large data returned by our apiRequester endpoint, we’re required to set the varying field to a fixed length (charac...
9 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 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...
about 4 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Toolkit 2 Not under consideration

Differentiate the GDPS operations for the Normal CFs and the Standby CFs that are normally deactivated

Differentiate the GDPS operations for the "Normal" CFs and the "Standby" CFs that are normally deactivated. The customers need that the GDPS in its Coupling Facility operations differentiates between the "Normal" Coupling Facilities and the "Stand...
about 7 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

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.
about 4 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

WEB RECEIVE shall not limit the http response headers to 4k

we do have situations where the server do reply http headers area bigger than 4k and in these case we get a 16 INVREQ Resp2=157 from cics instead of running successfully we do have a jwt solution where the signed jwt is 7k and if the server sent t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Future consideration

Add Support for Multi-Target Global Mirror Introduced in DS8900F Release 9.4

This would allow us to take two distinct sets of Safeguarded Copies from a single environment, each set making use of different parameters. For instance, we could thus address the requirements of the business (captures every 30 minutes, kept for 1...
5 months ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration