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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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Monitor the jobs for sending an email when an alert condition occurs

Alert notifications can be critical for any business. Therefore, a method for monitoring email notification jobs is necessary. As providing a multi-tenant system with TWS becomes increasingly important due to the decentralization of work to variou...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Meaningful complete initialization message fro all the OMEGAMON products

It is not obvious enough to determine the complete and successful initialization of the OMEGAMON products (for z/OS, CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ,.. ). We can't find an unique message that indicates that all the components of an Omegamon started task are re...
about 1 year ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add High Speed Connector metrics as a CDC data flow for RTMC

HSC end point metrics are maintained in the group control block (e.g. number of application timeouts), and socket control block structures (e.g. total number of APIs, Total number of errors etc). HSC end point metrics should be added to RTMC as a ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Add a "conditional record hold" function that allows the coder to specify the maximum number of waiters for this record.

In an effort to avoid record hold bottlenecks, rather than blindly issue a FIWHC (which can result in a lengthy wait queue), would it be a better idea to invent a conditional FIWHC equivalent that would allow the programmer to specify the maximum ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

ZFILE json display

As JSON config files are being added to the TPF system, it will be beneficial to have a "pretty json" display available for the TPF file system, where files are encoded in ascii. For example - the configs for ZMATC are json and used to modify the ...
over 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

VTP issolated recordings for IMS/CICS

We do have both CICS and IMS. In our installation all the transactions arrive via front end channel applications (no 3270 screens/terminals), so our only way to record transactions in VTP is recording transactions coming from the channel. Besides,...
over 2 years ago in Z Virtual Test Platform 0 Future consideration

TPFUG: Provide z/TPF zMQ API that returns the associated Remote or Local zMQ Name(s) for a specified zMQ Dynamic Queue Name

1. It is necessary to be able to enquire on the z/TPF Resources used by zMQQs associated with z/TPF zEVent processing, particularly z/TPF System Work Blocks (zSWB) usage and zMQDepth. 2. For this to be done all local, remote, aliased, dynamic zMQQ...
over 3 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

z/OS Version in KOBSZOS view

Running different versions on lpars it would be helpful to have an overview about migration status. So we would like to have z/OS Version in the z/OS lpar overview (KOBSZOS). Please see an example attached. BR Andrea
over 2 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Add Date Time offset fields to SMF 110 record header

With the growing customer need to load SMF data into analytical tools, the requirement to align and associate the various records from multiple time zones using date and time is becoming more critical. The lack of date time offset values in the so...
about 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 2 Future consideration

Have a Cobol program Outline available while viewing source

Purpose: to enhance the ability of viewing and navigating Cobol code by the use of an outline of the program structure. Clicking on the different divisions, sections or paragraphs will take you to that point. This makes the engineer's job easier a...
over 3 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 3 Future consideration

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