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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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Enhance Dzip to use ADRDSSU compress

I've been using Dzip to attempt to backup some datasets. Unfortunately I keep getting B37 abends during the ADRDSSU processing because the temp datasets aren't large enough that are being used. Could we get an option to enable compression during t...
17 days ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 0 Under review

Customers would like to be able to 'extract' metric listing from within IntelliMagic

The search has good capability to cross reference and find reports and fields (metrics) that IntelliMagic reports on, but since there are so many variables available in the database and tables, customers would like to see all of them in one place....
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

ASID needed as condition item in IF-THEN statement

With the IF-THEN statement we often process messages that are intercepted by NetView Automation. To evaluate the message, there are several condition items available. However, if a specific task that has been started several times under the same j...
about 1 month ago in IBM Z NetView 0 Submitted

Add possibility to specify SYMBOLS=EXECSYS on a dd_input (zos_mvs_raw)

In a JCL job I can work with system symblols in in-stream datasets if I specify SYMBOLS=EXECSYS. I could not find a solution to do so with zos_mvs_raw. JCL Example with &YYMMDD-Symbol (current date): //COPYDS1 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=64M //**...
2 months ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 1 Under review

Use 64-bit storage for OTMA TPIPEs

Nowadays OTMA is one of the most important pieces in IMS. Given the big range of TCP/IP clients is quite difficult to manage OTMA TPIPEs in a complex scenario. Although the latest development enhancements are more than welcome, they aren't fixing ...
about 1 month ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 0 Under review

Feature to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER, EXPORTEr

We don´t have the option to import keys of type CIPHER, IMPORTER and EXPORTER in the UKO. It would be interestig to have this feature
about 1 month ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / UKO for z/OS 0 Submitted

Show a warning on the chart when all data is not available to span the selection that the user specified.

It is a little confusing if a customer/user specifies a range that is not available in the data base (for retention reasons for example). A warning would inform them that they are not looking at all the data that they requested.
about 1 month ago in  IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

When a task purge/forcepurge attempt fails, there will be a log message saying so

We get a lovely message saying that the request to purge (or force purge) a task has been accepted. If it works, we get a message saying the task ended. If it doesn't... nothing.
4 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Future consideration

Additional time options for Not Started Alert/Action at operation level

Not Started Alert feature at job level, allows to define a specific day and time to request an Alert or an Action for those operations that didn’t start within that time. This feature could be improved adding the possibility to select as time opti...
7 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Multiple dependencies in DWC Plan View

I would like to suggest that the 'Plan View' functionality for DWC on z/OS gets improved.Today when it's used and you search for a specific job stream or application, the Plan View only shows one level of predecessors.The only way to see an entire...
4 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

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