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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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IBM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools - Health Center under AQUA 3.3

We provide a consolidated eclipse environment for our mainframe Tools such as MQ, zOS, CICS explorer, Debug tools, Data Studio and with AUQA 3.3 , tool "BM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools - Health Center" is not available.
over 1 year ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Display if the JOBSUMSSION is active or not by a batch

To display if the JOBSUMSSION is active or not by a batch job
about 5 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enable support for GDG and GDG allocation override

The AAM DSNAME_TYPE keyword should be expanded to support the selection of GDG datasets, both the GDS and the GDG. This should be coupled with additional SET controls to override GDS attributes like EMPTY/NOEMPTY, SCRATCH/NOSCRATCH, Etc. Identific...
over 3 years ago in IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add columns to KPM CICS table

Add the following columns to KPMC_MON_TRAN_H (as in CICS_TRANSACTION_H) :- BMS_REQUESTS_TOTAL to quickly identify 3270 transactions- SYNCPOINT_REQUESTS- RESPONSE_MAX_SEC and CPU_MAX_SEC to identify a possible anomaly during the interval (the peaks...
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration

CL/SuperSession: Change RACROUTE Calls to GLOBAL=YES

*** Note: This is for "CL/SuperSession"; I was unable to locate this product in the drop-down boxes *** Please change RACROUTE calls to use GLOBAL=YES instead of GLOBAL=NO (or provide a new PARMLIB option to control this), so that SAF calls are pr...
almost 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT not smart enough

INGDB2 CHECK_INDOUBT is checking INDOUBT Threads of DB2, but obviously the check are not going deep enough. We had an Indoubt Thread, which had already a status after an recover: ABORTED-H From Mainframe site there is nothing which can be done add...
about 5 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

RMF CPC Report Retrieval Reliabilty Improvements

To obtain CPC-level metrics for all LPARs running on a CPC the OMEGAMON PlexView agent KM5PDAG issues a system level query that drives a system level agent (KM5LDAG) on an RTEMS selected from an internally built list of all M5 RTEMSs running on th...
over 1 year ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Restore a file from Shared File System backup into SFS without creating the entire directory structure of the user.

When a file from a Shared File System is restored, the entire directory structure from the original user filespace is created, even when just one file is restored. After the restore all these obsolete directories have to be removed again. Especial...
over 1 year ago in Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM 1 Future consideration

Issue WTO message for impending certificate expiration

Our CTG customer has requested that CTG for z/OS be enhanced to issue a WTO command every x minutes prior to the CTG SSL server certificate expiring. The customer wants to define a JVM property such as com.ibm.ctg.ssl.certificate.expiration.warnin...
over 3 years ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Runtime 1 Future consideration

Enterprise Cobol - Document the different stages of compilation

In addition to our request 150104, we suggest that the different processing stages of the COBOL compiler be documented, and that the different actions performed in these stages be described:- processing of REPLACE directives- processing of COPY di...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 1 Future consideration

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