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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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Simplify verification of occurence/operation status after performing a CP REFRESH (dialog option 9.5) by having an available copy of the pre-refresh files on a separate controller

Currently it is very difficult to get all the occurrences and operations in the current plan (CP) into the correct status after it is necessary to perform a REFRESH of the long term plan (which deletes the current plan). In fact it is so difficult...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Further methods in generated classes

I was building a proof of concept system for an internal project using JZOS Record Generator, and ended up writing a few static helper functions that it would be nice to have inside the class, namely a constructor from String and an equals method....
over 1 year ago in Record Generator for Java 1 Future consideration

Wand user in case no CLOSE statements in CBL program

ZUnit test failure due to dataset compare issue with missing CLOSE statement. So to summarize the issue, test case that creates non text datasets (aka with packed decimal fields) fail as the ZUnit compare can’t seem to recognize the datasets are t...
over 2 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS 2 Future consideration

enable e3270 users to close situations

Hi,The TEP client of Omegamon (all Omegamons) has the capability to close pure event based situations. The TEP client is getting harder and harder for customers to be able to run. This is because browser based java support is eroding and java webs...
over 5 years ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 1 Future consideration

Omegamon for z/OS to display SHARED and DEDICATED utilization for all processors types i.e. GCPs, zIIPs, IFLs and ICFs

How to monitor CPU usage when having a mix of shared and dedicated processors. We have a setup where we are using shared IFLs for our z/VM LPARs running our Linux on Z workloads, and we have dedicated IFLs for our SSC LPAR running the IDAA on Z. I...
almost 4 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Shared Resources Report - add more details

On the Shared Resources Reports - include more information and group together. For example: on the JCL Physical Dataset shared resources report - include information on the report or allow for a detailed report to show all the JCL & datasets e...
almost 4 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Allow current plan to be automatically rebuilt with correct status information after a refresh of the plan (dialog option 9.5)

Currently it is possible to recreate the current plan from the long term plan after a CP refresh, with loss of all status information. However many customers add most of their worklad dynamically, and dynamically added occurrences are not handled ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Completing occurrences via batch (WAPL, BCIT, etc ) should not delete predecessors without a warning or a special parameter to indicate that it is OK to delete predecessors

If occurrences are set complete via the ISPF dialog or from the DWC, there is a warning given if there are predecessors which are not completed. When doing the same thing via batch, the predecessors are just deleted which can make the current plan...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Allow to use RACF as keystore database for E2E Automation

The E2E Automation allows to have secured SSL-communication beetween the E2E-systems. Therefore you have to define some SSL-Keys. The configuration dialog within the feature allows to specify the name of the keystore inside the JAVA-Environment. T...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Please add LIKE & IN predicates to WHERE

Please add support for the IN and LIKE predicates to the WHERE clause of update definitions to simplify the code.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

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