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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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(TPFUG/Visa) Provide tooling to create a consolidated view of Migration Considerations for a user defined batch of APARs

Understanding migration considerations is a critical part of installing APARs. Each APEDIT has a MIGRATION CONSIDERATIONS section for IBM to document various APAR impacts including: Functional automation and operation changes, API changes, SIP imp...
10 months ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Enabling suppression of null valued decimal numbers in JSON generate

We have a use case where we sometimes need to return a decimal value of 0.00 in a JSON, and sometimes need to return without that value(suppressed). We do not believe that we currently are able to do that. We move low-values to a decimal variable,...
over 1 year ago in COBOL Compilers / z/OS 2 Future consideration

A right-click on a z/OS Project triggers duplicate calls to the host which slow down the display of the context menu

For example if a z/OS project contains 3 datasets like BUILDER.TEST.LISTING BUILDER.TEST.SRC.COBOL BUILDER.TEST.GENRTED.JCL debug level 2 is enabled on the server side. The user logs in and right-click on the z/OS Project. His rsecomm log shows 2 ...
5 months ago in z/OS Explorer 1 Is a defect

I would like rexx AOFRSCMD to support brackets

everyone using brackets in message id's
5 months ago in IBM Z System Automation 2 Not under consideration

Reset Threshold and interval setting in Netview Automaion table

The THRESHOLD and Interval conditions in the Netview automation table are very useful functions for throttling and isolating specific occurrences that should be automated on. Would like a means of resetting these values when certain conditions are...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z NetView 1 Future consideration

LOGICAL PROCESSORS EFFECTIVE value to be reported by Omegamon

My Team receive alerts when CF CPU Busy times reaches a determined threshold. After Upgrade from z12 to z14, with option DYNDISP=THIN, we noticed a very considerable increase in the CPU consumption of shared CF processor.With THIN option, processo...
over 6 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add new function to collect version/release of Zcentric agent

Add a new function to collect information in mass mode (like utility or batch) or exploit information available in EQQSWIZC panel to view (in one shoot) version/release of all Zcentric agents defined to IWS controler
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Support data compression in the z/TPFDF product (TPFUG Requirement)

Support subfile data compression/decompression with option to compress the entire subfile or selected Lrecs.
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPFDF 0 Future consideration

IMS 15 Connection Pooling number of threads

If you use connection pooling you can not see how many theards were used during the lifetime of a region. Was I already close to my 50 threads? It would be helpful if at the end of a region life in the region statistics the number of used threads ...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 3 Not under consideration

Option CONTROLLINGSYSTEM for NO_DASD env.

Since GDPS V4R1 with the new NO_DASD GDPSMODE it's recommended to set the GEOPLEX option CONTROLLINGSYSTEM to '1'. If no KSYS is defined you have to define a Dummy system.This is not user-friendly because the user see always that (Dummy)-system in...
about 5 years ago in GDPS 11 Not under consideration

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