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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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dinfo command should not require a volume parameter as all our datasets are catalogued

The dinfo command should not require a volume parameter as all our datasets are catalogued. Should be able to issue this command: dinfo -u @02858.t.cntl …instead of this one: dls -l @02858.t.cntl | awk '{print $1, $NF}' | xargs dinfo -u to list: @...
5 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Future consideration

Enable Data Virtualization Manager (DVM) capabilities on zCEE OAS3

Under OAS2, zCEE and DVM are able to communicate via WOLA… whenever the connection is established between the two of them, applicable DVM services are installed in and available to zCEE (but only for the duration of the zCEE instance). In addition...
5 months ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

Enhance GDPS MGM 3site to support IPLs in Recovery region

In a MGM 3-site environment, major blocker with automating the region switch would be to IPL lpars in Recovery region. Since there is no Kp lpar in Recovery region, shutdown cannot be done from current Kr in recovery region. Only LOAD can be perfo...
11 months ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Show list of changed resources before INGAMS REFRESH

When a new ACF is loaded it is not visible which changes will be activated when this ACF is refreshed. Especially on a production system this is an unwanted situation.Therefor we've made our own rexx. This rexx will check the timestamp in the new ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Full keyboard mapping in RCE

This idea comes from TS014282019. In the IDz 15.0.3 the host emulator supported the full keyboard mapping. For example, there are two enter keys in full keyboard, our devs would like to map the second enter key to a different function. This functi...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 1 Future consideration

CTG COBOL Batch interface like BAQCSTUB - CTGCSTUB.

Rather than using Batch COBOL EXCI to single CICS region, have a COBOL Call interface like zCEE BAQCSTUB. This would allow for CPSM Workload distribution, across target Batch Processing regions. Topology of (Batch Owning Region),.. BOR --> AOR ...
about 1 month ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

z/OS Ansible Collection zos_operator: add a wrapper for the opercmd 'console' parameter

The 'console' parameter for the opercmd shell command and python API allow us to specify a suffix for the EMCS console name that is generated. I need this functionality to be exposed in the zos_operator module.
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Not under consideration

Adding ability of Key Mapping to Remote Connection Emulator

Remote Connection Emulator (RCE) is replacing Host Connection Emulator (HCE) from IDz 16 and onwards. In the old HCE we had the ability of mapping any key (or combination of keys) in the keyboard to any command. In the new RCE - key mapping is res...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Emulator 1 Future consideration

Create a solution on IZPCA to support multiple customers with the same MVS_SYSTEM_ID

This idea will be a great improvement in the architecture of IZPCA to be able the new scenario of zCloud. Kyndryl is supporting customer in zCloud and the IZPCA must be installed to support all these customers in a shared DB in zCloud. To support ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

WAPL | Permit partial values for FILTER segment/record comperators

The segment operators in the FILTER function do not permit the usage of partial values. The usage of partial values with common wildcard charactes like in the List/Select-Statement would be helpful and creats a greate user experience while using W...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration