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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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To enhance the IBM IMS Fast Path Solution Pack FPA RELOAD and INITIALIZE functions

To enhance the IBM IMS Fast Path Solution Pack FPA RELOAD and INITIALIZE functions, we propose the following enhancements: Automated ADS Allocation Size Calculation: Implement a mechanism to automatically calculate the optimal ADS allocation size ...
14 days ago in IMS Fast Path Solution Pack for z/OS / Fast Path Advanced Tools 0 Submitted

Provide a z/OS ENQ query comand

There are many ways to query the system/dataset ENQs on z/OS but there is no way presently via ZOAU. Please provide an easy to use query capability for ZOAU that does not require operator authority to issue the d grs command. See both ISPF ISRDDN ...
3 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

Operational CPU and Sysplex should be selectable

Currently when Retrieving Operational for a new project the CPU Sysplex data is automatically downloaded, it would be nice if this was added to the Build Configuration as an option in case it needs to be refreshed or if we do not want that informa...
14 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Filtering Operational Information

The Operational information for a large enterprise environment is quite large and much of the data it contains is not relevant from an application level. e.g. The DB2 data tries to download the entire DB2 catalogue which contains not only APPL rel...
14 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Operational Information sharing

The collecting of Operational Information in the Build Configuration is on Project Level yet the information gathered is on zOS Connection. This means if we have 280+ projects per environment (and we do), we need to collect the Operational Informa...
14 days ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Submitted

Add collection for SMF88 subclass 1 and 11.

Define a new tables that will maintain SMF 88 subtype 1,11 for logstream performance.
14 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Move the IMS structures above the bar, 64-bit memory

As machines get bigger and faster, they process more IMS transactions per second and we need more storage to process this. We have run out of 31-bit storage. We'd like to move the IMS structures above the bar, 64-bit memory.
27 days ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0 Submitted

Provide Detailed Instructions on Cloning an SMU Server from a Container to a new Container/Server for High Availability

IBM currently provides an option to install/manage/run SMU using a Red Hat (Podman)/Linux (Docker) container. It would be very useful for clients to have detailed instructions on how to make a copy of an existing SMU container to create a high ava...
3 months ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Planned for future release

Renew a certificate in the ring without restart CTG

As indicated in case TS016643542, currently, when we modify a certificate in the RACF ring used by the CTG, it is necessary to restart the STC for detect it, which implies a loss of service. We think it would be interesting to have the possibility...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Port STCK functions from PL/I to COBOL

Hello. COBOL provides intrinsic functions to get date in time in formatted format. I need to also get the STCK (and/or STCKE) values in bin/hexadecimal. PL/I has these features : pex PLISTCK(val) to put the STCK value in val. Is it possible to por...
9 months ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 1 Future consideration

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