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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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ZVDT - Managed Deployment

The customers want to a ZVDT managed deployment from provisioning tools. Something similar to what ZD&T has in place today. The idea is to avoid typos and mistakes using as much automation as possible.
about 2 years ago in Z Development and Test Environment 1 Future consideration

The usage of cicstermu from a remote system using SSH

It would be great for us if there is a way to use "cicstermu" from a remote system using SSH. This would give us an opportunity to automate actions to be launched from our management server. We can execute the shell script containing the cicstermu...
about 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Other 0 Future consideration

z/TPF Geographically Dispersed Processing for High Availability

Multiple z/TPF Customers; Citibank, SABRE, Marriott, Amex, and TVPT, desire an implementation of z/TPF where at least two geographically dispersed z/TPF Loosely Coupled Computing Cluster (LCCC) Systems may cooperatively process against the same da...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Improve IMS OTMA resilience in periods of system slowdown.

OTMA storage utilization includes static storage for control blocks and variable storage for various buffers and working storage.The variable storage both varies in size and in duration of allocation, depending on phase of OTMA processing.System s...
over 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

Add SPACES delimiter in WAPL VARSET WORD

On the Bell Canada account, in the WAPL code used to migrate a Z batch scheduler to IZWS 9.5, we are using the VARSET WORD command to parse the syntax of a scheduling interface. The original syntax of the scheduling interface allows the use of mul...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Enhance INGMOVE to support SYSTEM MOVE groups

Enhance INGMOVE with an option to support SYSTEM move groups. The option may be LOCAL or SYSTEM vs. a default of SYSPLEX. Using this new option would produce an alternate move panel showing a list of resources in the group with options similar to ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 1 Future consideration

Add more information to ZSSLD DIS command for better diagnostics

Please add to the existing display information regarding the allocation of CTXes to each daemon, what daemons are supporting what ports, and a high-water mark for CTXes on each daemon. It also might be useful to display the timestamp of the oldest...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

SSL Daemon - Dynamically refresh CRL/Certs when they are changed

We have a security requirement to update the CRL daily. We have a process that recycles all of the INETD services in order to bring in the latest CRL for all new connections. We have recently ran into heap issues on the SSL Daemons that forced us ...
about 2 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 0 Future consideration

Value of the %{jobStatChgEvt1.ActualStart} variable

The variable %{jobStatChgEvt1.ActualStart} that is used in Event Rule Action, Generic action, timeout actions doesn't retune start time in correct format.Example: it return this value 2018-03- 01T22:00:18Z/Australia/Perth While job logs shows like...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Use SHEMAs in TDSz SDRLDEFS members

Instead of specifying the prefix on every DB2 resource, please instead use a SET SCHEMA command in the DDL distributed with TDSz. This will allow a single ID to own all of the DB2 resources created during installation, across an enterprise. Many D...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Decision Support 0 Future consideration