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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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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

Make larger fonts available

With the advent of larger Personal Computer screens, it would make sense to allow larger fonts to be used. For example, I have a with a resolution of 1920x1080. If I want PCOM to use the full screen, the terminal window can take up the full screen...
over 1 year ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 2 Planned for future release

Ability for Zos controller to push zcentric agent upgrades

This will assist in the ability to upgrade hundreds of zcentric agents easily as well as keeping the product as up to date as possible.
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 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

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

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

Implement support for CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax

Currently the Cobol Editor in IDz do not support CICS EXEC CPSM Syntax. For example: The Cobol editor will flag the function EYUVALUE(OK) with "Unable to resolve reference to EYUVALUE".
about 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Editors 3 Future consideration

Setup jwt based authentication to connect zCEE

Hi Team, We would like to build API's from zCEE and display API callgraphs but to access our Production zCEE , we need to setup jwt (json web token) based authentication between ADDI and Prod zCEE but as per IBM case - ADDI is only having basic au...

Support EQQMINOx to be invoked via LIBDEF (run zWS dialogs for different versions in parallel)

Unfortunately EQQMINOx is NOT supported to be invoked via LIBDEF because of the way that EQQMINOx is loaded -- there is an old DOC APAR concerning this which is STILL true even today-APAR= PK53014 SER= DD DOCLIBDEF FOR ISPLLIB DOES NOT WORK FOR LO...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

PL/I compiler for Linux (or Windows)

Besides z/OS and AIX the PL/I compiler was also available for Windows several years ago. This allowed us to use nearly the same source on z/OS and on Windows. We used the PL/I preprocessor to adapt the source for both systems. Instead of Windows a...
about 9 years ago in PL/I Compilers 9 Not under consideration