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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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DBB JCLExec remove dependency to SDSF

When you want to use the JCLExec from a DBB groovy script you can only do this if you use SDSF. We use EJES instead of SDSF and get transaction dumps.
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 3 Delivered

Enhance Comms Stub to segment Data for CICS API Requestor services

The currently CALL interface in the zos Communication Stub is too rudimentary in nature and fails to take into account large and complex data structures now prevalent in many common external API's. This constraint is a major blocker for effective ...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Creating DB2 services using the API Toolkit

System: z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition 3.0Actor: DBA / Developer z/OS Connect EE API Toolkit can create a service for CICS® (access through the CICS service provider) or IMS™ by using the z/OS® Connect EE API toolkit. Description: z/OS Connect EE...
about 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Omegamon subsystem and z/OS history handling - store data in one or more permanent datasets with restart-point (reduce time)

When the loading LPAR (RMF/DDS data) will be IPLed or the Omegamon subsystem (OMIOSUB) goes down its dataspace is lost and another OMIOSUB in the Sysplex loads the same volume of data again with high CP CPU% and long loading times. Therefore store...
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 1 Delivered

Make CICS Time-of-Day Viewable in CICS Explorer and the CPSM WUI for each CICS TS address space

In supporting a large environment (500+ CICS regions) running at different CICS Time-of-Day, it would be very valuable to be able to view the CICS Time-of-Day in CICS Explorer or the CPSM WUI. TICTOC is used to alter the time of day for some regio...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 3 Delivered

Omegamon subsystem and z/OS history handling - zIIP eligiblity for RMF/DDS loading

Make the Omegamon subsystem history loading process from RMF/DDS eligible for zIIP
over 5 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Delivered

Change Default values for DFHAID Copybook

We need the defaults changed in the DFHAID copybook to be compatible with GIT/DBB. The special characters are not round tripping from GIT to z/OS for DBB builds. In z/OS it displays as this "double bar" 02 DFHCLRP PIC X VALUE IS '¦'.In GIT this is...
about 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 4 Delivered

SMF 123 records should be logged for all access attempts to z/OS Connect

The ability to monitor authorization failures HTTP401 and file not found HTTP404 early failures is now available to be monitored in Omegamon/JVM but this same information is not written to the SMF 123 records. As SMF is the main security and audit...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

Allow python code to utilize zIIP processors

As we modernize our mainframe patching infrastructure and use python to implement, we do not want to introduce more CPU consumption in the process of trying to enhance our environment for the future. Allowing python to execute on zIIP would be an ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 2 Delivered

Dependencies visible (like VERIFY screen) at stop in SMU

It would be helpful if when you stop an application in SMU, you also get to see the dependencies that may also be stopped (the VERIFY screen).Then you can easily decide whether to quit with or without dependencies.Of course, the dependencies can a...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Service Management Unite 0 Delivered

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