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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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Integration with CDP in a configuration with a standby controller

We use a standby controller and we want to use the CDP whit it running but now is not supported. This is why we request to integrate CDP with standby controllers
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

RFE to create TIMEOUT parameter in CICS for calls out to z/OS Connect

Provide a ‘TIMEOUT’ parameter within CICS for calls from CICS out to z/OS Connect. The CICS regions in our environment that call out to z/OS Connect are high volume, multi-application regions that are used to sub-second response times. Calls out t...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

new function for current timestamp

I would a cobol function to retrieve the current system timestamp with the higher possible precision like STCKE or Db2 SET CURRENT TIMESTAMP. Optionally a parameter could drive the required precision of the timestamp (same way as the current times...
almost 4 years ago in COBOL Compilers 15 Future consideration

Fixing and adding additional fields in DWC metrics

Hi Team, Currently, After activating the configuration file TWSZOSMetricsConfig.properties, DWC metric portal is exposing job metric values. But, It is showing job number value in the job name field. We have checked with vendor and they mentioned ...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

enable wildcards in policy condition values

We would like the ability to use wildcard characters within a policy condition for example: <conditions> <header name="imstran" value="TRAN%A" /> </conditions> Where % is a single character wild card. This would be beneficial for...
about 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 0 Future consideration

SMF99-14 in CDP

Could it be possible to stream SMF99-14 in CDP to Splunk ?
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Planned for future release

zTPFDF should maintain a count of chain blocks in the prime block trailer

As a database administrator, I need the ability to quickly determine how many chains or data blocks a TPFDF sub-file has, so that I can more easily trouble-shoot excessive I/O, queuing, or contention problems. The chains would be counted when a PA...
7 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 1 Not under consideration

Support RMTCMD IP for the Blog, CANZLOG and labelled commands

We are trying to run our Netview RMTCMD setup with SNA being turned off and using only RMTCMD IP mode. The BLOG command is coded to use only RMTCMD SNA using the keyword LU= and not the DOMAIN= and IP= keyword that can allow the RMTCMD over IP. Th...
7 months ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Future consideration

LCP (screen VPCPLCS3) : provide a script to export backup details and allow them to be written to a GDG.

When managing the safeguarded capacity multipliers for volumes in LCP, it would be very helpful to be able to see how exceptional volumes have behaved over the last week or so. Currently the 'EXPORT' command in panel VPCPLCS3, " Logical Corruption...
over 1 year ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

SUBJOBUSER to support control via RACF SURROGAT profiles

The SUBJOBUSER user field feature introduced by PH35729 allows IzWS operations to specify the submission user as the value associated with SUBJOBUSER. But there is no RACF validation of what is effectively surrogate user submission once the SUBJOB...
about 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Planned for future release

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