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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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Enhancements required in DWC’s REST API for IWSz

1. Why are two separate TWS REST API calls required to retrieve the full job stream details? This approach is not recommended for DevOps practices. For example: Step 1: Execute the following call to retrieve the job stream ID:https://<DWC_Hostn...
7 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Ability to Add New Application Level User Field to Existing AD in Workload Scheduler

Description:Currently, when using the ADUSF option, IBM Workload Scheduler creates a new Application Description (AD) with the same name instead of adding the User Field to the existing AD. Additionally, ADUSF requires attaching the user field to ...
3 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Changing CESN to permit password phrases via IBM Feature Toggle

Hello, We have been reviewing the guidance provided in IBM documentation regarding enabling password phrase functionality when customers utilize IBM default lists such as DFHLIST and default groups like DFHSIGN. However, we do not believe it is ap...
3 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Needs more information
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TWS High Availability

We are working with high availability in the customer's datacenter, so tests were done with TWS simulating an lpar outage where TWS was active in a sysplex. The standby controller takes over work correctly for new jobs that are submitted, but jobs...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

R3BATCH return code been ignored on zCentric Agent workstations

The R3BATCH processing under a LWA / Dynamic Agent doesn't track SAP Extended Agent Batch return codes as per the functionality available under an FTA. When an extended agent RC is returned by SAP by including the following functions into SAP Job ...
13 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

SMF real-time callable service from Go

Pls create a way to use the SMF in-mem interface from Go.
14 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 0 Submitted

Suppress DFHHC0801W repeated messages from CICS LOG

This message is being generated every 30 min, which does not make much sense, it could be sent one per day or only once after startup, I dont need this info to be checked every 30 min as CESN sign on programs are stable, we only change it if we do...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Is a defect

To be able to stop & start Liberty microservices via CEMT commands

We can refresh a microservice via CEMT commands and we can stop & start microservices via Collectives and Broadcom SYSVIEW, but it would be really useful to be able to issue CEMT commands to stop and start a microservice, which we could then u...
15 days ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Needs more information

CICS webservices migration assistant tool to migrate existing WSDL as an openapi3 document. Thus, facilitating easy migration of CICS webservices to z/OS connect based API's

As CICS webservices feature is stabilized. We would like to convert existing webservices into json based api's. That could be exposed via z/OS Connect both for Provider and Requestor type services.Thus, a tool that can migrate exiting WSDL files, ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 0 Under review

Recommended procedure for relocating zWS databases and datasets (changing dataset names)

Sometimes it's necessary to change the dataset names of a zWS installation due to changes in the dataset naming conventions or migration of zWS datasets from non-SMS-managed volumes to SMS-managed volumes. Unfortunately, I cannot find any recommen...
2 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration