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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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Add retry logic for connection failures

I miss connection retry when the network is flaky.1) when entering credentials for VM or zOS you validate credentials by connecting host. In case you get connection errors could you retry eg 3 times with 1sec delay before you raise an error. (in c...
almost 3 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

Missing Documentation for Installing IBM Cognos Analytics (Part of IZPCA) onto a Linux on SystemZ IFL(s).

Customer is currently attempting to utilize IZPCA on their zSystem Environment and use Cognos Analytics (part of IZPCA) installed on a zLinux IFL for available dashboards. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zp-and-ca/3.1.0?topic=reporting-implementing-co...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Not under consideration

GDPS Global Mirror volume dynamic expansion

Provide capability from GDPS to dynamically expand a volume in a GDPS session and modify all the relationships from a single step.
over 1 year ago in GDPS 3 Not under consideration

Enable IMS AIBTDLI INQY ENVIRON call to retrieve IMS Function Level

Please refer to IBM case TS002966101 and also note that if this information is entered into the PMR ID: field of the RFE submission URL, the error message "The PMR ID is not valid. The ID should have the format XXXXX,YYY,ZZZ using numbers for the ...
about 5 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 2 Not under consideration

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

Create POST Query via JOBNAME in REST API Offering for IBM zWS

The REST API for zWS needs a POST command query that is primarily driven by the JOBNAME as in PANEL ID EQQASELP. This query should present all the properties/attributes of the job.
over 3 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Add support for sending multi-part objects to S3 when using the streaming send/receive exits.

The documented method for sending large objects to the cloud is to use the streaming send and receive Web-Enablement Toolkit exits. However, it is not possible to send multi-part objects using this method. There is no way to overcome the 5GB limit...
about 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center 6 Not under consideration

monitor the situation before EQQM975E

We got message: EQQM975E FAILED TO ADD APPLICATION ADID BECAUSE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF OCCURRENCES REACHED. . Is it possible to receive a warning message before reaching the threshold set in JTOPTS MAXOCCNUM or at least make a display to monitor the si...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 1 Not under consideration

Improved ability to invoke trigger keys

We are in the process of migrating a customer from CA-TPX to Supersession.The customer is used to switching between sessions using command keys in CA-TPX in various different situations. Users switch sessions from input fields, which can contain d...
over 3 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 2 Not under consideration

Need to view 64 Bit Storage in CICS CEDF utilities

The various flavours of the CICS Execution Diagnostic Utility (CEDF) allow me to view storage with 31 bit addresses but increasingly I need to be able to view storage with 64 bit addresses. For example a JCICS program placing data in a container w...
over 1 year ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

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