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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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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...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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...
over 9 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 2 Not under consideration

True length of DSECT

There should be a method (perhaps a new parameter) that would cause the "length" attribute of a DSECT to return the actual size of the dummy section, rather than simply returning a value of 1.
almost 9 years ago in IBM High Level Assembler for z/OS and z/VM / Assembler 3 Not under consideration

DBB Toolkit API - CopyToPDS does not support statistics

When the CopyToPDS command from the DBB Toolkit API is invoked to copy a ZFS file to a partitioned dataset, then the copied member in the PDS(E) has not statistics. The size, created, changed and ID fields are all empty. This does not seem logical...
over 3 years ago in Dependency Based Build 2 Not under 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...
about 11 years ago in IBM OMEGAMON for IMS on z/OS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Enhancement Request for SETTIMER Command

Actor: Systems Programmer Our team uses System Automation for z/OS for various things. One of which is utilizing Policy timers to perform some unit of work at a time-based interval. Currently operating in Netview to interact with policy timers (no...
about 6 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

CICS Explorer - ability to view and filter SIT parms for multiple regions

Resubmitting old RFE that still would be of use during problem analysis. https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CICSTS-I-876 https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CICSTS-I-2081 Currently the CICS SIT parms (for combined, JCL, SYSIN etc) can only be displayed in an Att...
7 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Ignore unexpected fields in the Response to apiRequester call in Open API V2

We have CICS Transactions issuing apiRequester calls to various distributed applications. Occasionally we find that these distributed applications may add new fields to the response as part of a new release, often without notifying the application...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

generic BAQCSTUB in SBAQLIB to merge SBAQLIB and SBAQLIB1

Please merge SBAQLIB and SBAQLIB1 into a single dataset or use distinct program names across the two datasets. Using unique program names when unique functionality is required allows customers to use LinkList to pull the version of zOS Connect int...
7 months ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Calculates the AIU’s percentage busy for z/VM & z/Linux

Enhance IzPCA tables to calculate the AIU’s percentage busy for z/VM & z/Linux. Details: We're currently using a z16 CEC and the customer would like to measure the AIU’s processor utilization. The tests are happening in a zLINUX server. This s...
7 months ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 0

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