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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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Verify Add of a ApplicationGroup should keep or abondon dependicies in case of a loop while adding

When adding an application to CP through ISPF panel EQQMAMOL causing a loop you get warned properly (not allowing the add). If you add an applicationgroup causing a loop, you only get a warning meesage in upper right corner. saying “DEP LOOP IN GR...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

controlling IPLcomplete-check after setting new Runmode

In case of maintenance we are using runmodes with reduced number of resources which are needed to maintain the systems.In this phase IPL will not complete, cause all our online-systems are down, which are defined for IPL-complete checking.Not all ...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Avoid writing over unarchived JT files after message EQQN180W is issued by controller

In the subject PMR 65928,L6Q,000 (the files for which are available under internal PMR 53795,999,000 ) the JTARC filled up (B37) after which all the JT files were used but could NOT be copied to the JTARC file. This resulted in EQQZ045E for normal...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Remote Resource API fo Associate Program to a COPYBOOK

We need the ability to programmatically associate a Program to a COPYBOOK
over 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Usability 2 Future consideration

Improve how TSA sees attended autotasks in Netview

For the commands listed below, TSA should treat autotasks started with *MASTER* and *INTERN* the same way it does with the ones started with *ANY* (attended autotask) Meaning that the default value for the VERIFY parameter should be WTOR. INGMOVEI...
over 8 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Product needs to display summary of 4HRA lpars

Customer has an agreement for MSU's for all dev/test lpars. Product needs to show a summary of the total monthly MSU's, so this can be tracked.
about 4 years ago in IBM Z Performance and Capacity Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability to auto kill job once deadline is reached

This option is useful for jobs which are running long and can be auto killed so the successor job can run automatically.
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

Ability to send job late message to the error panel

Ability to track job is running late (via deadline) where the message is sent to the error panel (HANDLING OPERATIONS ENDED IN ERROR). This way there is a central place where operators / schedulers / developers can see what jobs are in error and a...
about 2 years ago in IBM Z Workload Scheduler 0 Future consideration

in Healthcenter authorization.file It should be able to have more than a readWrite value.

if there is a option for readOnly. you can have users that only is allowed to read and other that can read + ask JVM to take dumps.
about 2 years ago in IBM Java SDK for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DB2 backup for S3 storage (Simple Storage Service)

DB2's Cloud Storage Support The direct support for S3 storage (Simple Storage Service) is definitely a great feature from IBM introduced with v11.1, that helps particularly to write backups and read them from anywhere. However, there are still som...
about 4 years ago in IBM Tivoli Tape Optimizer on z/OS 0 Future consideration

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