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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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Report on SMF 98 rcds.

SMF 98 rcd produces a 5 sec view of the CPC and its Lpars which is highly recommended by IBM and Peter Enrico for example for viewing CPU usage and other KPMs for assisting in debugging Performance Issues. Provides High Frequency throughput statis...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 2 Future consideration

Change WS name of job(s) on a CP through a batchjob.

The possibility in ZWS to change specific WS name of job(s) on a CP through a batchjob. (as mass update on ZWS DB). If an application id can be selected with a wildcard would be great. We want to remove a WS on the current plan (option 5.5) but th...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance the DBB User Build Information popup

When a user build finishes, IDz shows a popup window which states: "DBB User Build is complete for <name-of-the-source-file> Click Details to see the complete build log." This information doesn't provide any valuable information to the devel...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Dependency Based Build 1 Future consideration

there are still limitations of 2GB, and storage must be reused to effectively utilize the insufficient areas. Therefore, I would like to request a function to secure storage through program compress in advance before reaching short-on-storage.

We're running CICS/TS V5.6. Our CICS is expected to run out of 2G virtual storage in the near future.Basically, the amount of programs used is large, so the size of the ERDSA reaches 800M. As shown below, EDSALIM is 1300M and we uses almost all of...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Not under consideration

z/OS Connect Field/Header Validation

Provide basic validation for input API fields.
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Not under consideration

Release TPF Debugger from IBM TPF Toolkit as Java Library

Take the IBM TPF Debugger facilities that exist in IBM TPF Toolkit 4.6 and make available to customers as a stand-alone Java library (NOT as an Eclipse plug-in). n other words, provide the Java library that is responsible for the functionality to ...
about 1 year ago in z/TPF Product Family / TPF Toolkit 5 Not under consideration

Update EVJ120I message to include OPTEXT data.

We have automation code that uses INGTWS/INGOPC command to obtain OPTEXT data for a failing batch job. It would simplify this process if the OPTEXT data was made available on the EVJ120I error message (at the end).
about 1 year ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Provide possibility to automate fetch of PgmModuleMap.txt

Hi When using different names for loadmodule and first program it's possible to map those with PgmModuleMap.txt ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/addi/6.1.1?topic=tasks-adding-files-project-folders ). To be able to automate create/update of the textfi...
about 1 year ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 0 Not under consideration

GDPS Consistent FlashCopy should not disable Hyperswap

GDPS Metro is disabling Hyperswap prior to Consistent FlashCopy. As we were told by IBM this is no longer necessary. We would like to get it eliminated to have less Hyperswap disabled moments. There will be the risk, that a HS trigger happens whil...
over 3 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

Please add the support of data feeds from IIDR (IBM InfoSphere DATA REPLICATION) SMF records to the product.

The product is important to our company's application support community, and users have been asking for these feeds to ZLDA so SPLUNK Dashboards could be built to monitor workloads, performance, and trends. We currently have these records assigned...
7 months ago in IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics 2 Planned for future release