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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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    Obrowse enhancement

    In z/OS UNIX, the obrowse command should be able to handle acii tagged files (e.g. UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1) in the same way as command oedit does.
    about 5 hours ago in Z Development and Test Environment 0 Submitted

    Write SMF 79.15 at IRLM interval instead of IMS LOCKTIME interval

    When LOCKTIME is enabled in IMS, the SMF 79.15 record is only created when the IMS timeout value is exceeded and it triggers abend 3310. It would be interesting for clients to also create the SMF 79.15 when the IRLM timeout interval is exceeded, b...
    18 days ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Submitted

    Request to Increase the Maximum INTENT LIST Length Beyond 64K in IMS

    We would like to request that the maximum allowable length of the INTENT LIST in IBM Information Management System (IMS) be increased beyond the current 64K limit. During ACBGEN processing, we encountered the DFS2558I message indicating that the I...
    3 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Under review

    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

    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...
    15 days ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

    Add passphrase support for IMS Connect / Data Power exit HWSDPWR1

    IBM implemented passphrase support in IMS Connect sample exits HWSSMPL0/1, but the Data Power exit HWSDPWR1 has not been changed in a while and still does not support it. The source code is not delivered to customers, so it cannot be changed local...
    about 2 months ago in IMS System Services / General System 0 Under review
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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

    Requirement to have more variables in EQQEMAIL Member - Occurrence Input Arrival Time

    We need an extension in the function „Sending an email when an alert condition occurs " https://help.hcl-Software.com/workloadautomation/v101/zos/src_man/eqqr1sendemail.html In the EQQEMAIL Member, various variables can be used here. Currently I o...
    8 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Future consideration

    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

    IMS ABEND at IRLM ABEND in non-XRF and non-FDBR IMS

    In case of IRLM abend, IMS closes and stops all opened DBs and DEDB areas. It takes a while to close and stop these databases, therefore certain period of time is needed to recover from the outage.For XRF and FDBR enabled IMS, there is an APAR to ...
    over 4 years ago in IMS System Services / General System 1 Not under consideration

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