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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.
27 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Submitted

Add a new DISPLAY for CLASS

Currently, one of our customers is using the IMS command /STO CLASS CLASS# to stop the transaction execution in one of the IMSs in the PLEX environment. However, there is only one command to investigate the CLASS situation /DIS STATUS CLASS, and i...
28 days ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 0 Under review

Ability to retain few SGC captures and expire rest

We are currently doing an hourly LCP capture and retaining for 3 days. But recently we had a business requirement to retain for 7 days but one capture in a day is fine along with hourly captures retained for 3 days. This is similar to our full vol...
6 months ago in GDPS 11 Future consideration

Enable session timeout longer than 999 seconds for e3270 UI

It would be beneficial to set a session timeout longer than 999 seconds (such as 30 minutes) to satisfy audit requirements on our site.
3 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for z/OS 0 Under review

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter

Add support to zoautil_py.datasets & zoautil_py.zoau_io to be given a DD as parameter, instead of having to hardcode the dataset name: In the JCL: //DDIN DD DSN=XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ,DISP=SHR In the Python code: datasets.read('//DDIN') instead of: da...
4 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Needs more information

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` ...
21 days ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go 0 Under review

Add support for usage of data area for arrays in the request of API Clients using top down approach with z/OS Connect open api 3

When generating data structures for an API requester based on an OpenAPI file that includes an array in the request parameters, Gradle generates a data structure using a data area. However this is not supported right now since the host api verb BA...
22 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Planned for future release

TAGGING File Refresh using CEMT

In Current Scenario , After Implementing CICSTAG.yaml CICS tagging file , there is 2 option . 1- Recycle the CICS region 2- Login to CICS region and issue CECI SET TAGS REFRESH In my firm we have 500+ CICS region running in one Lpar, and we will n...
8 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Not under consideration

Report that analyzes the behavior of CICS Workload when changing from one LPAR A to another LPAR B (with different capacity) and if this LPAR B supports this new workload (if the LPAR B does not support it, the report should indicate what changes need to be made to the LPAR B to support the CICS Workload)

We received this request from management because it would help in evaluating the renewal of the contract with IBM.
12 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improvement for the zos_copy / ibm_zos_core collections module (based on ZOAU’s dcp utility)

For our Ansible-based deployment solution, we use the zos_copy module from the ibm_zos_core collection (version 1.8.0). We note the absence of ISPF statistics on our PDS and this is particularly penalizing for our PARMLIBs. The objective of this p...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Future consideration

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