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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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TWS IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) should also show ZIIP usage in Joblog statistics

We are using TWSz to schedule production and test jobs. TWSz includes a IEFACTRT (EQQACTR1) which also writes statistics in the joblog. Among the statistics is CPU usage. For users to see the real usage of CPU resources the user also needs to know...
about 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

Request TMRA Commit Mode 1(CM1) support dedicate persistent socket.

Customer IMS is transforming from legacy SNA environment to TCPIP environment. They use both MQ and ICON for TCPIP Gateway.In new develop client programs, they prefer using TMRA for application gateway between application and IMS, and want to use ...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Application Enablement 1 Not under consideration

Improve the interface between zWS and CDP so that CDP continues to work with zWS if the USS filesystem is moved or restarted on a different LPAR (AUTOMOVE)

There are 3 inter-related requests here all for CDP/zWS interface (parameter CDP(YES): (1) a command to force a SWITCH of the CDP logs (similar to what is available for the SWITCHMLOG) (2) a command to force the CDP interface to start up again (wi...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add a new feature to start DRF SAS according to SORTPARM(NUM(nnn)) even if STACK was specified.

The customer ran into a problem where thousands of output image copies were taken after a recovery during DR exercise because STACK keyword was not specified (STACK causes all the DBs in that recovery profile to be pointed to one IDRF0001 job and ...
about 1 year ago in IMS Recovery Solution Pack for z/OS / Recovery 1 Future consideration

Cross Dependency: "Real Time" status in shadow Job

If we use automatic recovery statements (e.g. to insert a new application as new predecessor) the workstation status of shadow jobs don't change from E to W. IWS changes the status of the shadow job after the recovery action is completed (the new ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Larger packet size needed for IND$FILE and P-COMM download/upload

I request the next version/release of IBM P-COMM (and corresponding IND$FILE in MVS/TSO) to allow larger SendBufferSize values (e.g. 64000, 128000, 256000, 512000, 1024000, 2048000, 4096000, 8192000). This is needed for faster download/upload spee...
over 2 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Protocol enhancement 1 Planned for future release

Additional fields for MIPS and MSU's on one screen and Job Class

Kyndryl client Sagent Lending is converting from Mainview and they need these requirements to manage their LoanServ app and client requirements
7 months ago in IBM OMEGAMON for z/OS 0 Future consideration

User ID as filter criteria

Like in any other bank, the customer has different business channels like: branch office, ATMs, internet, etc. and all the IMS transactions coming from a given channel carry the same user ID (a group in fact). For instance: BOFFI01, BOFFI02, BOFFI...
almost 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enable tape level encryption in CTC VTE component

Provide an encryption option with CTC's VTE component to enable host based encryption of system tape.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Intranet Server so where non-IBM employees can access our Documentation offline.

Currently, IBM documentation can only be accessed and downloaded internally. There is no intranet server for customers to download/configure and customers cannot access the documentation externally. The current process is to download the IBM deskt...
over 1 year ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Documentation 1 Not under consideration

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