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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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Provide workspace to see transaction summary activity for whole CICSPlex in one screen

In very large institutions it's hard for people to see a enterprise-wide view of what is happening in CICS and the whole CICSplex. We are asking for a summary screen / workspace much like the FIND ACTIVE workspace, but with summary data as I will ...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

PIF Request/Modify for CSR (Current Plan Special Resource) Interval

CSR (Current Plan Special Resource) Interval should be able to be changed through PIF.
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Completion of Encryption statistics from SMF113 into TDS/iZDS

We started the use of encryption, and we would complete the currently existing informations inside TDS Tables. We need to add the following fields coming from SMF133 subtype 1 CSType 3 :extended counters fom 64 to 127.This should give some materia...
over 5 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Planned for future release

Make EYU9XSTR Threadsafe

I want program EYU9XSTR to be threadsafe as it will save us an enormous amount of TCB switches.
almost 12 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Not under consideration

Handle multiple lines of header data

For HATS screen combinations, give HATS the ability to capture multiple rows of header data, and keep those separated from the actual table data. Today HATS can only extract one row of header data. Many host screens with tabular data have two or m...
7 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Add last screen handling for Screen Combinations

Add the capability to screen combinations last screen processing such that data may not extracted on the last screen if the data that is displayed is repeated. This happens when the last screen of data is only recognized when a PF key is hit and t...
7 months ago in IBM Host Access Transformation Services / Other 2 Planned for future release

Reduce vulnerabilities within the the Workload Scheduler / z Workload Scheduler tools by using industry standard password encryption

There is a risk that exploitation of non industry standard password encryption vulnerabilities by a malicious actor could lead to the loss of Customer data and potentially service outage. For example the Windows Agent users password encryption ado...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

JES2 Release Command (Case TS013137673)

As suggested on case TS013137673 I'm opening this idea. I'm reporting here JES team recommendations: 1. Use of ENF signals for determine job status prior to asking for release 2. Retry the release if job status temporarily does not allow the relea...
about 1 year ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

EQQJOBS support for the "million jobs" SPE (SPE9308) is missing in 9.5 releaseOPo

There is no EQQJOBS selection for the use of the "million jobs" function (parameters MCPDATASPACE and CPDATASPACE) even though there are quite a bit of things that need to be customized - file definitions (EQQPCS01 job),the parameters for BATCH jo...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Planned for future release

Descriptive wait reasons for tasks waiting in DB2 or IMS

We would like more information exchanged between CICS and DB2/DBCTL about the status of a task that is considered to be "in-db2" or "in-IMS", so that the wait reason for a task in a DB2 or DBCTL call shows what the task is waiting on.
about 6 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 1 Not under consideration

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