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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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IMS Asynchronous Lock Duplexing

Like DB2 "asynchronous CF duplexing", do you have any plan to implement similar functionality on IMS for IMS locking and VSAM RLS locking. Synchronized duplexing is too expensive in terms of CPU consumption.
7 months ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 1 Not under consideration

Specify timeout on the individual WEB CONVERSE commands instead of RTIMOUT on the whole transaction

The RTIMOUT value specified for the transaction that starts the user application indicates the time that the application is prepared to wait to receive the incoming message. (RTIMOUT is specified on the transaction profile definition). However, in...
11 months ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Future consideration

GDPS problem determination/detection tool

I would like to see a GDPS problem determination/detection tool that would be able to interrogate the netlog and identify better the cause of a particular failure. The error message reporting (although getting better in recent versions) in the Net...
almost 2 years ago in GDPS 22 Future consideration

Improve dynamic scheduling, with scenarios driven by unplanned workload

Dynamic scheduling is increasing and unplanned applications cover a big piece of daily workload.Following scenario is currently supported in IBM Z Workload Scheduler. A job in an application has an external predecessor, defined using a relative in...
9 months ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

CPU and zIIP consumption by call passed by CTG

It's exist 2 SMF record to give us information about the consumption : 77 for the adress space level 111 for statistics It would be great to have a record witch will give us the consumption by call. For example if we activate the JWT authenticatio...
22 days ago in CICS Transaction Gateway / Other 0 Submitted

Tool to expose a large number of CA GEN COBOL programs in zOS Connect

We got hundreds of CICS Cobol programs which were generated from that we expose so far with Cics Transaction Gateway (CTG), and we want to migrate and expose them in zOS Connect. We do that manually, one Cobol by one Cobol, and this process is pre...
22 days ago in z/OS Connect 0 Under review

Expand REST API functionality in order to obtain all situation statuses with historical data with a single query

Currently, the Rest API is not capable of bringing all historical data for all situations. Rest API can bring historical data to only one situation at a time by adding expand=true parameter. A suggestion would be to get all situation statuses with...
about 1 month ago in IBM Tivoli Management Services on z/OS 0 Needs more information

CATTool should Provide Date of Master Key Changes

As part of the Crypto Card or KDS Db2 tables, The CATTool should provide the date that the MKVP value was first stored in the KDS or the date that the MVKP value was changed in the KDS as a result of reencipher. This support was recently provided ...
6 months ago in Enterprise Key Management Foundation / Other 0 Under review

Generate a report with smaller headers - trackinglist report - OFIELDS

The trackinglist report is very useful but the number of lines of the report is huge, like millions of lines for just a 5 minutos data window. This report is used as input into another system/step that will process the data and generate insights a...
4 months ago in CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS / Runtime 0 Future consideration

Execute Dump through GDPS in 3th site

In the 3th site there is no option to take a stand alone dump through GDPS. We experience issues with IPLing cyber vault systems. A stand alone dump is absolutely necessary for an accurate analysis and for the support from IBM side. There should b...
about 1 month ago in GDPS 0 Future consideration

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