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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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Enforcing JESSPOOL security rules on JCAN command

When JCAN is used to issue a cancel or purge command, it will issue the operator command $CJ(nnnnnn). This is like what SDSF does, when a line command C/P against the selected job. The significant difference is SDSF can/will perform a check agains...
over 1 year ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Planned for future release

GDPS should automatically clean up from destructive repair operations on storage devices

We recently had a "B" box outage that required support to utilize the CST process that removes all in memory structures including copy services. This created orphaned secondary pairs in our GDPS Metro Global session. Currently within GDPS we can o...
over 4 years ago in GDPS 6 Not under consideration

Add ability to see PSBs that point to a DBD from DBD Detail panel, and sort better on that column.

On the DBD Detail Panel there is a column 'Pointed by PSB (#)'. It would be nice to have a line command to see that list of PSBs from this panel. Also, each DBD often has multiple lines (ACTIVE/ACT-DIR) with only one line having a 'Pointed by PSB(...
3 months ago in IMS Administration Tool for z/OS / Product functionality 1 Planned for future release

Filter the graphs screen

Could it be possible to filter the screen like the graph inventory? The purpose is to get a screen that will be more fit for the users needs. It could be a good assets also for WCA4z.
3 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Under review

Delta IDAA tables for SMF interval DB2 statistics

On IZPCA there is activity of delta tables ( D_DB2_BUFF_POOL_% - D_DB2_SYSTEM_% ...) these work using record procedure DRLSD64D for DB2 statistics records, that calculates the delta values for the fields. There is also an existing mapping for RECO...
8 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide Troubleshooting section in documentation

When running builds which fail/abend in an MVSExec or another Unix System Services process, it can lead return codes which are difficult to troubleshoot. Users have reported their trouble with diagnosing these issues in the community repositories:...
over 1 year ago in Dependency Based Build 0 Future consideration

Search on Unicode character strings in File manager MVS

Is it possible to change the functions of File manager MVS to allow the specification of Unicode character strings ?File Manager will convert these Unicode character strings into an internal hexadecimal character string in the File Manager templat...
over 1 year ago in File Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Set the jobstep return-code for DFHSIP to a higher value than zero when a JVM server in CICS abends

After an abend of JVMSERVER (timeout) during startup of CICS, CICS ends with RC=0.
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Is a defect

IWSz Upgrade with zero downtime

Last weekend we migrated IWSz from V9R3 to V9R5.The complete migration took about 1h to complete. Due to the unavailability of IWSz there was some impact on critical batch processing with frequencies smaller than 1h. Today's business requirements ...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Option to generate a client interface from a REST OPEN API JSON file

it's very usefull to generate the client interface from a SOAP WSDL file. But now EGL also supports REST OPEN API, and generates these REST OPEN API JSON files, which is great.But the other way around this isn't possible. We would like to see that...
8 months ago in IBM Rational Business Developer / EGL Language 2 Planned for future release

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