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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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RMFIII report STORM in CDP

Could we have RMFIII report STORM in CDP ? we currently have STORR STORC and STORF , but STORM is missing . kind regards Régis
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0

Enhance the Configuration Manager validation step to warn about undefined symbolics

With RTE_SYSV_SYSVAR_FLAG=Y, when a (user or system) symbolic is used in a &SYSNAME. configuration, and that symbolic is not defined in either the VAR$&SYSNAME. or as a system symbolic. Examples would be: RTE_TCP_PORT_NUM "&NONE_EXIST_...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Under review

Add support for MFA and Yubikey in DB2 for z/OS Connections

DB2 for z/OS has added basic MFA support. However, customers are integrating with more of the options provided by z/OS MFA. We need to expand this usage to accommodate customers configurations. See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zma/2.0?topic=yubikey...
2 months ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Host Tooling Integration 0 Under review

Session recording files maintenance

The product today creates session recording files without limitation. This force the customer to have an external process to clear older versions of theses files or risk with hard disk failure. Suggested here to add the ability to define history r...
2 months ago in ApplinX 1 Under review

Convert all BJTDBASE tablespaces to Partition by Growth (PBG)

Currently, the DDL supplied with ITOM for all Db2 objects in the ITOM BJTDBASE database creates all base tablespace objects as classic segmented tablespaces, which have been deprecated by Db2 development for at least 3 years now. The recommended t...
2 months ago in IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PDELETE: for managing physical data provide a retention period instead of a date from when to delete.

The issue was discussed at the last IZSAM workshop in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and I was asked to create an idea for it: In IZSAM Physical Delete function there should be something like PDEL=nn where nn stands for "keep physical data for nn+current...
4 months ago in IBM Z Software Asset Management 0 Future consideration

TLVLOG output

It would be useful to create another way of Dataset to collect the output of TLVLOG. This new way could allow to collect it in several datasets that would avoid to have a huge sequential dataset with all the TLVLOG from long time. For example, a GDG.
over 2 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Planned for future release

Omegamon for z/OS needs to adjust the skip&count formula

The Omegamon for z/OS skip&count formula being used to determine which TCPIP port various Omegamon components bind to needs to be adjusted so the range of ports selected are in a more refined group of ports instead of spread out across the 65K...
over 2 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Initialize Cobol Language Environment

The product provides the capability to be customized with user exits. Since programming user exits with cobol is not a question of performance any more, they get rewriten from assembler programming language to cobol. Today, it is mandatory to crea...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Allow VMRELOCATE outside of ICIC

Currently a VMRELOCATE performed on a virtual machine that is managed by ICIC will cause problems within ICIC if the VMRELOCATE command is issued from zVM itself. ICIC should be able to recover from these events on its own by issuing the QUERY USE...
2 months ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 0 Submitted

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